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We cannot use open in Git Bash. If you try to open a file using open on Git Bash, you will get the error bash: open: command not found . This short article explains how to open a file on Git Bash for Windows.

Open a file in Git Bash

We can use multiple commands to open a file on Git Bash. It depends on whether you want to edit it or view the contents of the file.

For example;

If we only want to view the contents of the sample.php file, run the following script.

$ cat sample.php

This should display the contents of our sample.php file.

Output:

We cannot edit using the above command.

If we want to edit it, we can use the $ startand $ explorercommands, but they will open the file with your default program.

In our case, we configured VSCode to open our php files. So when we run the following script

Order:

$ start sample.php

Order:

$ explorer sample.php

Both of the above commands will open the sample.php file in VSCode.

Summarize

We have discussed how to open files on Git Bash. If you just need to view the contents of a file, use $ catthe command, and if you need to edit it, you can use the $ startor $ explorercommand.