>start . -- open the current folder. Notice this is very helpful if your path is very long. It saves you a lot of time having to traverse to the folder you want manually.
>start http://yahoo.com -- open yahoo website
>start c:\temp --- open the Windows dialog with the c:\temp folder opened.
Now, how do we do this in Linux?
If you are using Gnome desktop manager, then you can run this. How do you know you are using a Gnome desktop manager? You can run >pstree and look for gnome keywords. If you do see one, you are probably using a Gnome desktop manager.
>gnome-open .
>gnome-open http://yahoo.com
>gnome-open c:\temp
A generic way to do this is to run xdg-open, but this script is not always installed.
>xdg-open .
>xdg-open http://yahoo.com
>xdg-open c:\temp
