Notepad Exe Command Line Arguments
Credit: Image courtesy of Microsoft To load a text file from the prompt, enter its name - including directory and extension - in quotes, such as Notepad 'C: Documents File.txt'. You have to include the full directory of the file unless the file is in the prompt's current directory. If it is, simply use the file's name and extension in quotes: Notepad 'File.txt'. Optionally, you can omit the quotes if your file name has no spaces. Command Line Arguments In addition to loading a file, Notepad has a few command line arguments for changing the program's encoding system and printing. Encoding Options By default, Notepad automatically detects the type of encoding used in a text file when loading it. To override the automatic detection, enter either /a for or /w for (UTF-16) prior to the file's name.
For example, Notepad /a 'C: Documents File.txt' opens File.txt with ANSI encoding, regardless of the encoding used when saving the file.
Windows Basics Overview Command Line Arguments. Docs Info.txt' is a command line argument being passed to notepad.exe. Notepad detects the argument. Help on switches is available from? -> Command line arguments. Be similar to MS Notepad's. Place the cursor to the line 150. How to pass command line switches.
This is worth noting: 'Changes made with SET will remain only for the duration of the current CMD session.' This can be found. And it says that Set command is used to display, set, or remove CMD environment variables. So Set command can be used to remove the whole variable, in this example the PATH variable. And again, it will not be permanently removed from Windows.
It is only valid for the duration of the CMD session. To permanently set an environment variable from CMD, the Setx command should be used instead. Either that or GUI. – Jun 13 '13 at 22:09. I would not want to clutter my PATH just for using a single tool. One alternative is to use an alternative text editor as 100% replacement for Notepad as explained with many details.
Another description with a dedicated editor launcher tool can be found. Another Notepad launcher on. A less invasive alternative is a cmd file like this: 'C: Programme Notepad notepad.exe'%.
This file has to reside somewhere along the existing PATH. I actually put all my tools in one common UTIL directory, which is part of PATH. What do you mean by 'cmd file'?
And what's with the asterisk and the percent sign? What file has to reside 'along' the PATH? (It's not like it's going somewhere.) How do you make use of UTIL? Last time I checked there is no variable called UTIL. Is this something you came up yourself and added manually to the system?
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Can you explain any of this? And maybe give me some concrete example I can work with and hopefully learn from? Or are you just here to brag about how you know command line? I don't mean to be rude or anything, I'm just saying how it is. We all have different skill levels.
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– Jun 14 '13 at 15:33. Combining the answers from Axel Kemper and adding some extra's, here is what I did to make a permanent command that you can give any name you want. First of all I created an extra folder. In my case: 'C: Users Hansel CmdFiles'. In this folder I created a new text file throught the right click menu - new - text document. Edit the text document using notepad or notepad and type the following code in the.txt file: @echo off 'C: Software Notepad notepad.exe'%. Then you have to rename the file to your personal command, for example 'npp.cmd'.
On a side note: the @echo off prevents the command from printing to the command prompt; the link between the quotation marks can refer to any executable;.%. will make sure that anything you type after the npp command (for example ' npp nonsense.txt') will be put after the original command in the quotation marks. Then you need to edit an 'environment variable', in this case the so called PATH (this variable contains the folders where Windows looks for commands and executables). To add the folder to your PATH, push the windows button to enter the start menu and type 'edit environment variables for your account'. Under 'User variables for Hansel', create a new 'Path' variable if it does not exist or edit the old 'Path' variable if there is one. If you make a new PATH variable, the variable value should just read: C: Users Hans CmdFiles If you edit an old PATH variable, the variable value should read: oldstuff;C: Users Hans CmdFiles (mind the semi colon). Windows now looks for commands in the folder 'C: Users Hansel CmdFiles' and you can easily add new commands to this folder!
To run any program from command line with a short name you can create an alias for it by the command doskey: doskey alias='drive: path to program executable' $. For example, after running command doskey notepad='C: Program Files (x86) Notepad notepad.exe' $. you can open the text file with notepad by notepad textfile. Of course, you can use shorter alias something as npp or n.
Also you can create alias for some path you often open: doskey home=cd C: Users myprofile But unfortunately you cannot use this alias in path. If you run doskey home=C: Users myprofile and then enter in the command line cd home or start home myfile you receive error message. To create your aliases automatically each time when cmd runs you can put its into the batch file like autorun.cmd and set it in the registry entry: HKCU Software Microsoft Command Processor AutoRun or HKLM Software Microsoft Command Processor AutoRun Links to the articles. A simple way to run any program installed on Windows from command is:. Find the location of notepad.exe, create a shortcut under the installation directory. cut and paste the shortcut to C:/windows/system 32. Now you can press 'Win + R' and type the name of shortcut.
PS: in my case, I named the shortcut 'notepadpp' (or even 'nppp') so that I don't have to press 'shift + =' twice for '+' symbol Extremely simple and easy, and it's easy to delete the shortcut. You don't even need to change the path, registry.