Open text file and program shortcut in a Windows batch file

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I have two files in the same folder that I d like to run  One is a  txt file  and the other is the program shortcut to an  exe  I d like to make a batch file in the same location to open the text file and the shortcut then close the batch file  but the text file and program remain open    I tried this with no luck   open  myfile txt  open  myshortcut lnk    Also didn t work   start  myfile txt  start  myshortcut lnk

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Don t put quotes around the name of the file that you are trying to open  start  myfile txt  opens a new command prompt with the title myfile txt  while start myfile txt opens myfile txt in Notepad  There s no easy solution in the case where you want to start a console application with a space in its file name  but for other applications  start     my file txt  works

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I use    echo off Start notepad  filename txt  exit   to open the file   Another example is   echo off start chrome  filename html  pause

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Try using    ECHO off ECHO Hello World   START  MAX D  SA pro hello txt

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In some cases  when opening a LNK file it is expecting the end of the application run    In such cases it is better to use the following syntax  so you do not have to wait the end of the application    START  B  I  MyTitleApp   myshortcut lnk    To open a TXT file can be in the way already indicated  because notepad exxe not interrupt the execution of the start command   START notepad  myfile txt

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You can also do   start notepad  C  Users kemp INSTALL Text1 txt    The C  Users kemp Install  is your PATH  The Text1 txt is the FILE

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If you are trying to open an application such as Chrome or Microsoft Word use this    echo off start    App Name       App Path   exe    And repeat this for all of the applications you want to open   P S   This will open the applications you select at once so don t insert too many

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location of notepad file    notepad Filename   C  Users Desktop Anaconda  notepad myfile  works for me

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The command start  filename  opened the file in my default text editor   This command also worked for opening a non- txt file

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This would have worked too   The first quoted pair are interpreted as a window title name in the start command   start     myfile txt  start     myshortcut lnk

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The command-line syntax for opening a text file is     type filename txt   File types supported by this command include  but are not limited to    doc   txt   html   log  If the contents is too long  you can add   more  after  type filename txt   and it will pause after each screen  to end the command before the end of the file  you can hold Ctrl   C

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I was able to figure out the solution   start notepad  myfile txt   myshortcut lnk  exit

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Its very simple   1 Just go on directory where the file us stored 2 then enter command i e  type filename file extention  e g type MyFile tx

[command-line] Open text file and program shortcut in a Windows batch file

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