2 posts tagged with "powershell"

Imagine the following situation: you've a HTML website on your computer and you would like to run it. But how? Should you install Apache or Nginx? Yes, you should ... or just run exactly ONE COMMAND to start Docker.

Years ago, to open a local website, it was needed to install f.i. EasyPhp or Wamp, install and configure a lot of things, restart the computer, make sure EasyPhp or Wamp are running in background and ... pffffiou.

Those times are thankfully, definitively over.

Very often, I'm in my Linux console and I'd like to open a pdf file that I've just generated or, more simply, to open an html file. But how can I do this?

Without knowing the tip that is the subject of this article, at the moment I launch Windows Explorer from my console, I get then the well-known file explorer interface and there I double-click on the file I want to open and leave it to Windows, which knows which program to launch to open this or that extension.

In fact, it's much simpler...