Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

Re:Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line by Livven on Sunday August 18, 2013 @02:49AM (#6231917)

What many people don't seem to know is that the location bar in Explorer (at least on Windows 8) can act as a run dialog, and it supplies the launched program with the current folder as a parameter. So simply hit Ctrl+L and type "cmd" or "powershell" or whatever command from your PATH and hit enter.

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Re:Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line by WalterGR on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:16AM (#6232079)

Amazing tip!

FYI: On Windows 7, you need to press Alt+D to get to the location bar. (I believe that's the case for XP as well.) Ctrl+L doesn't seem to do anything.

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Re:Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line by skrebbel on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:33AM (#6232190)

Alt+D is my preferred shortcut anyway, since it has the same effect in e.g. fullscreen IE10. Consistency is nice.

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Re:Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line by WalterGR on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:37AM (#6232199)

Totally. Also works in Chrome and Firefox.

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Re:Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line by TeMPOraL on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:14PM (#6234262)

Thanks for the tip!

Neither Ctrl+L nor Alt+D work for me (Win7 Ultimate, 64bit), but even with clicking manually this is extremely useful for me.

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Re:Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line by tripzilch on Friday August 23, 2013 @05:54PM (#6266466)

I have been using F6 in my browsers, and it does seem to focus the address bar in File Explorer too. You need to press Enter first to be able to type commands though.

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