Fix WSL2 local file opening

sindresorhus · sindresorhus · commit 269b5fdf15df · 2025-11-12T12:50:47.000+07:00
Fixes #174 Fixes #360
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {fileURLToPath} from 'node:url';
 import {promisify} from 'node:util';
 import childProcess from 'node:child_process';
 import fs, {constants as fsConstants} from 'node:fs/promises';
-import {isWsl, powerShellPath} from 'wsl-utils';
+import {isWsl, powerShellPath, convertWslPathToWindows} from 'wsl-utils';
 import defineLazyProperty from 'define-lazy-prop';
 import defaultBrowser from 'default-browser';
 import isInsideContainer from 'is-inside-container';
@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ const baseOpen = async options => {
 			childProcessOptions.windowsVerbatimArguments = true;
 		}
 
+		// Convert WSL Linux paths to Windows paths
+		if (isWsl && options.target) {
+			options.target = await convertWslPathToWindows(options.target);
+		}
+
 		const encodedArguments = ['Start'];
 
 		if (options.wait) {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 		"default-browser": "^5.2.1",
 		"define-lazy-prop": "^3.0.0",
 		"is-inside-container": "^1.0.0",
-		"wsl-utils": "^0.1.0"
+		"wsl-utils": "^0.2.0"
 	},
 	"devDependencies": {
 		"@types/node": "^20.10.5",
