Open text file from command line

On  a Windows machine, we can open a text file from command prompt by just giving the file name.
For example to open a text file named file1.txt, we just need to type file1.txt in the command prompt and press ‘Enter’. 


c:> file1.txt


Note that file name should have the extension as .txt otherwise command prompt would not be able to identify which application need to be used to open the file.