Opening A Specific File With A Batch File

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I m would like to know how I can open a specific file using a specific program with a batch file   So far  my batch file can open the program  but I m not sure how to open a file with that program    echo off start wgnuplot exe

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echo off cd  folder directory to your file  start filename ext   For example   cd  C  Program Files  x86  Winamp   Start winamp exe

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If the file that you want to open is in the same folder as your batch  bat  file then you can simply try    start filename filetype  example  start image png

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You can simply call  program  file    from the batch file for the vast majority of programs  Don t mess with start unless you absolutely need it  it has various weird side-effects that make your life only harder   The The point here is that pretty much every program that does something with files allows passing the name of the file to do something with in the command line  If that weren t the case  then you couldn t double-click files in the graphical shell to open them  for example   If the program you re executing is a console application  then it will run in the current console window and the batch file will continue afterwards  If the program is a GUI program  i e  not a console program  that s a distinction in the EXE  then the batch file will continue immediately after starting it

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That program would need to have a specific API that you can use from the command line     For example the following command uses 7Zip to extract a zip file   This only works as 7Zip has an API to do this specific task  using the x switch     C  Program Files 7-Zip CommandLine 7za exe  x C  docs base-file-structure zip

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start wgnplot exe  c  path to file to open foo dat

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echo off start  1  or if needed to escape the characters -    echo off start   1

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you are in a situation where you cannot set a certain program as the default program to use when opening a certain type of file  I ve found using a  bat file handy  In my case  Textpad runs on my machine via Microsoft Application Virtualization   AppV    The path to Textpad is in an  AppV directory  so to speak  My Textpad AppV shortcut has this as a target      ALLUSERSPROFILE  Microsoft AppV Client Integration   12345ABC-A1BC-1A23-1A23-1234567E1234 Root TextPad exe   To associate the textpad exe with  txt  files via a  bat  file   1  In Explorer  create a new   txt   file and save as opentextpad bat in an  appropriate  location  2  In the opentextpad bat file  type this line   textpad exe  1     3  Save and Close  4  In explorer  perform windows file association by right-clicking on a  txt  file  e g   dummy txt   and choose  Open with   Choose default program     from the menu  In the  Open with  window  click  Browse      then navigate to and select your textpad bat file  Click  Open   You ll return to the  Open with  window  Make sure to check the  Always use the selected program to open this type of file  checkbox  Click  OK  and the window will close    When you open a  txt  file now  it will open the file with  textpad exe     Hope this is useful

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If you are trying to open a file in the same directory it would be     PROGRAM TRYING TO OPEN   FILE NAME PROGRAM TRYING TO OPEN  or this    Or  if trying to backtrack from the same directory it would be      PROGRAM TRYING TO OPEN    FILE NAME PROGRAM TRYING TO OPEN  or this    Else  if you need a straight one from start  it would be    DIRECTORY TYPE  Users  username   FILE DIRECTORY   ex  C  Users ajste Desktop Henlo cmd

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