eopen-ecd

eopen: Open Explorer from Terminal.
ecd: Change directory of Terminal and Explorer at once.

Supported Windows, Terminals

Windows

• Windows 10 64bit 1903 or later recommended (\\wsl$\ path is supported)
• At least Windows 10 64bit 1803 is required for WSL (wslpath required)
• Probably works on Windows 7 (includes 32bit) or later
  • Of course, PowerShell and Command Prompt only

Terminals

• WSL / WSL2 recommended for the terminal
  • Works on bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, yash, tcsh, fish
• Semi-support for PowerShell and Command Prompt

Usage

Available commands

	eopen	eclose	ewd	ecd	epushd	epopd	elsi
WSL	o	o	o	o	o	o	o
PowerShell	-	-	o	o	o	o	o
Command Prompt	-	-	o	o	o	o	o

Note Currently, eopen and eclose are not implemented for PowerShell / Command Prompt. Use explorer.exe instead.

eopen

Usage: eopen [ -e | --editor ] [ -n | --new ] [ --sudo ] [ -g | --background ]
             [ -s | --search ] [ -S | --web-search ]  [ -v | --version ] [ -h | --help ]

• Open the directory with Explorer from the Terminal.
• Open the file with application from the Terminal.

Examples

# Open directory with (latest used) Explorer
eopen ~/.config/

# Open directory with new instance of Explorer
eopen -n ~/.config/

# Opens with Windows default application
eopen image.png

# Opens with Windows text editor
eopen -e ~/.bashrc

# Use sudo to edit the unowned file
eopen -e --sudo /etc/hosts

# Opens with Windows default browser
eopen http://google.com

# Search with Windows explorer
eopen -s "*.conf" /etc/ "size:>1KB"
# Note: The query depends on the locale. e.g. 'サイズ:>1KB' in Japanese.

# Search with Windows default browser
eopen -S "eopen-ecd"

# Open files and directories under Windows
eopen C:/Windows

# Open files and directories under Network shared folder
eopen //server/shared

# Others
eopen mailto:user@example.com   # Mail protocol
eopen calculator:               # Application
eopen shell:Personal            # Shell commands
eopen :MyComputerFolder         # Shorthand for shell:
eopen shell:::{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} # CLSID
eopen :                         # Current Explorer location
eopen :/workspace               # Relative path from current Explorer location

Environemnt variables

name	description	default
EOPEN_EDITOR	Execution path of editor for eopen -e	notepad.exe
EOPEN_SEARCH	URL template for web search	https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
EOPEN_LAUNCH_TO	Default location for new explorer	Windows settings

Note Set environment variables on Windows (not in WSL).

Hint EOPEN_LAUNCH_TO accepts Shell: commands and CLSID not only Windows path.

eclose

Usage: eclose

Close the (lastest used) Explorer.

ewd

Usage: ewd [ -u | --unix ] [ -w | --windows ] [ -m | --mixed ]

Display path of the (latest used) Explorer location.

ecd

Usage: ecd <directory>

Change the directory of Terminal and Explorer at once.

If first charactor of path is :, it means relative path from current Explorer location.

Examples

# Change the directory to the '/etc'. (Both Terminal and Explorer)
ecd /etc

# Change the directory to the 'C:\Windows'. (Both Terminal and Explorer)
ecd c:/windows

# Change the directory to the current Explorer location.
ecd :

# Change the directory to the 'workspace' from current Explorer location.
ecd :/workspace

# Change the directory to the home directory.
ecd

# Change the directory to the Windows home (%USERPROFILE%) directory. (WSL only)
ecd ~~

# Change the directory to the ~~ directory instead Windows home directory.
ecd ./~~

epushd / popd

Usage: epushd <directory>
Usage: epopd

Push or pop a directory to the directory stack stack, And Change the directory of Terminal and Explorer at once. (Use push instead of cd.)

Note Not available on ksh and mksh, since push and pop are not implemented.

elsi

Usage: elsi [ -u | --unix ] [ -w | --windows ] [ -m | --mixed ] [ -0 | --null]

List selected items of the Explorer.

Download

Download from releases page

Note Highly recommend using x64 binary on Windows 10 64bit edition. x86 binary is also work, but access to the WSL path (\\wsl$\...) from 32bit process is unstable. (Related? issue 4260 of microsoft/WSL)

Note It is also distributed for Windows 10 ARM / ARM64. But I do not have those platforms. So it has not been tested at all.

Installation

Extract the zip file to any directory and set to your shell's profile.

Note Require to enable Launch folder windows in a separete process in Explorer -> File -> Change folder and search options -> View -> Advanced settings.

WSL terminal / Cygwin / MSYS2 / Git for Windows

Change the following line to the appropriate path and add it to your shell's profile under your home directory.

For POSIX compliant shells

eval "$(sh "/path/to/eopen-ecd/init.sh")"

[Profile] bash: .bashrc, zsh: .zshrc, ksh: .kshrc, mksh:, .mkshrc, yash: .yashrc

For tcsh

eval `sh "/path/to/eopen-ecd/init.sh" tcsh`

[Profile] tcsh: .tcshrc

For fish

eval (sh "/path/to/eopen-ecd/init.sh" fish)

[Profile] fish: .config/fish/config.fish

PowerShell

Change the following line to the appropriate path and add it to your PowerShell's profile.

. "/path/to/eopen-ecd/init.ps1"

To edit profile, type notepad $PROFILE in PowerShell.

Note Require to change PowerShell execution policy. (Google Set-ExecutionPolicy).

Command prompt

Change the following line to the appropriate path and add it to profile.bat (or favorite name)

@call \path\to\eopen-ecd\init.bat

Load it to Command Prompt. (For example, use cmd /k profile.bat)

For developers

Architecture

The ebridge.exe is helper module that operate shell (Explorer) via COM Automation. All scripts are thin frontend of the ebridge.exe.

How to build ebridge.exe

Require to install Visual Studio 2019 to build. (Free Community Edition is enough.)

To build, the following steps after installation of Visual Studio 2019

1. Run Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019 from the start menu
2. Goto project root directory
3. Run build.bat <TARGET...> (TARGET: x86, x64, arm, arm64)
4. Generate archive files to the dist directory.

Or double click ebridge.sln in the src directory to launch Visual Studio IDE.

Test

None, should be do.

History

The formerly name of this project was ecd that was started to port the fcd for macOS to Windows.

• fcd - Script factory
• fcd - another one-liner version

The core module was written with PowerShell script. Early version of ecd and eopen were relies on the script. It was a bit slow (about 400ms-). So I rewrote the core module as native by VC++. And eopen, which has many features, has been changed to the main.

CHANGELOG

License

MIT License