Windows bat file open file

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

asked Apr 7, 2010 at 17:08

start wgnplot.exe "c:\path to file to open\foo.dat"

answered Apr 7, 2010 at 17:10

Chris ThorntonChris Thornton

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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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answered Nov 13, 2013 at 20:54

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@echo off
start %1

or if needed to escape the characters —

@echo off
start %%1

answered Apr 7, 2010 at 17:10

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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.

answered Jan 28, 2015 at 17:40

Jason D.H.Jason D.H.

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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

answered Apr 7, 2010 at 17:11

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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.

answered Apr 18, 2010 at 8:48

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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

answered Apr 30, 2017 at 7:16

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

answered Nov 4, 2017 at 16:59

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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

asked Apr 7, 2010 at 17:08

start wgnplot.exe "c:\path to file to open\foo.dat"

answered Apr 7, 2010 at 17:10

Chris ThorntonChris Thornton

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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

CDub

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answered Nov 13, 2013 at 20:54

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@echo off
start %1

or if needed to escape the characters —

@echo off
start %%1

answered Apr 7, 2010 at 17:10

Etamar LaronEtamar Laron

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%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

When you open a ‘txt’ file now, it will open the file with ‘textpad.exe’.

Hope this is useful.

answered Jan 28, 2015 at 17:40

Jason D.H.Jason D.H.

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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

answered Apr 7, 2010 at 17:11

Marcus LeonMarcus Leon

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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.

answered Apr 18, 2010 at 8:48

JoeyJoey

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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

answered Apr 30, 2017 at 7:16

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

answered Nov 4, 2017 at 16:59

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Вы можете использовать команду start, чтобы открыть файл или папку.Команда start автоматически вызовет связанную программу, чтобы открыть файл и папку в соответствии с программой, связанной с файлом.

Вы можете использовать Блокнот, чтобы написать следующие команды, а затем изменить расширение на .bat

Открыть папку

start "" "c:\windows"

или

start exploer "c:\windows"

Вызов Word, чтобы открыть файл .doc

start "" "c:\test.doc"

или

start winword "c:\test.doc"

Вызовите Блокнот, чтобы открыть файл .txt.

start "" "c:\test.txt"

или

start notepad "c:\test.txt"

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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"

This question is related to
command-line
batch-file
cmd
command-prompt

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I was able to figure out the solution:

start notepad "myfile.txt"
"myshortcut.lnk"
exit

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"

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.

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.

I use

@echo off
Start notepad "filename.txt"
exit

to open the file.

Another example is

@echo off
start chrome "filename.html"
pause

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.

«location of notepad file» > notepad Filename

C:\Users\Desktop\Anaconda> notepad myfile

works for me!

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.

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"

The command start [filename] opened the file in my default text editor.

This command also worked for opening a non-.txt file.

Try using:

@ECHO off
ECHO Hello World!

START /MAX D:\SA\pro\hello.txt

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

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On Mac OS X and GNOME on Linux, there are commands that can be used to open files from the command line in their associated GUI editors: open and gnome-open, respectively. Is there any command like this for Windows?

asked Feb 17, 2011 at 2:30

If you are currently in the command prompt and have a file called test.png and , which are located in c:\test you can do the following:

If you are at the directory (so should say c:\test>) just type:

test.png

which would open test in the default png picture editor.

If the files name contains spaces, then simply enclose the file name within » «

 "this image.png"

You can alternatively type:

c:\test\test.png

which will open the file no matter where you currently are.

Finally, you can pass the picture to another program. For example, if you have an image editor called imageedit.exe and it supports opening files through command lines (and if the program is pathed/accessible or you are in it’s current directory), you can type the following:

 imageedit c:\test\test.png

answered Feb 17, 2011 at 2:38

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If it is a registered extension, you can use «start» as in

start WordDoc.doc

answered Feb 17, 2011 at 2:36

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On Windows command-line explorer "<PATH>" will open the file path with Windows default associated programs. This will also handle all URIs ( http:,https:,ftp: ) and other file protocols defined in Windows Operating System.
If the file or protocol is not associated with any program then an Open With dialog will show up. If file is not present then default My Documents folder will open up. It can also open executable files ( EXE, BAT files) and shell namespace paths.

Examples

explorer "http://www.google.com"— will open http://www.google.com in windows default browser.

explorer "file:///C:\temp\" will open temp directory if present

explorer "file.txt" will open file.txt on the current directory path .i.e. %CD% path

explorer ::{645ff040-5081-101b-9f08-00aa002f954e} will open RecycleBin.

You can refer about explorer’s other useful command-line switches here

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answered Jul 7, 2017 at 18:17

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The first parameter of Start is a window title, so if you have a space in the file name, and you type

Start «My File.txt»

you’ll get a command line window with «My File.txt» as the title. To get around this use a dummy title,

Start «my title» «My File.txt»

Depending on the file and what application is opened there probably won’t be a window to see anyway.

answered Jan 27, 2017 at 14:27

If you are in PowerShell
(at the PS (current-directory)> prompt),
and you want to open a file in the current directory,
you may try this .\myfile.ext.
If you are in the Command Prompt, you can accomplish the same result by typing

powershell -c .\myfile.ext

(You must include the .\,
as PowerShell doesn’t load files from the current location by default.)
Or you can provide a directory name (relative or absolute)
if the file isn’t in the current directory.

For the first scenario — if you are in PowerShell —
if the filename contains space(s),
enclose it in quotes (either kind) and precede it with
the & symbol:

PS C:\Users\myusername\Pictures> &".\funny cat.jpg"

(You may add a space after the & for readability,
if you prefer readability, and you may use / instead of \.)
I don’t know how to make this work in the second scenario
(in which you are running powershell -c from Command Prompt)
if the file or directory name contains space(s) — quotes don’t seem to help.

answered Oct 19, 2018 at 14:25

This may come a bit late, but the correct command for editing a file name in Windows 7 is «write file_name»

This should open up the default text editor and you should be able to edit the file easily

Edit: It seems to open only Wordpad. For me that was the default text editor.

answered Jul 31, 2014 at 18:11

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Specific executable with specific file:

Git Bash Script On Windows 10 :

SHORTCUTS_MAIN_START.sh :

    FILE_PATH="C:\DEV\REPO\GIT\AHK03\SHORTCUTS\SHORTCUTS_MAIN.ahk"
    EXEC_PATH="C:\DEV\REPO\GIT\AHK03\AHK_ROOT\AutoHotkeyU64.exe"

    $EXEC_PATH $FILE_PATH

This example opens the file denoted by $FILE_PATH with the executable denoted by $EXEC_PATH. If this doesn’t work for you, try converting the single slash ( «\» ) into double slashes ( «\\» ) for the paths.

answered Sep 19, 2017 at 16:16

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In the Windows command prompt, you can run

edit [file_name]

in order to view batch files/logs/text files etc. This command requires QBASIC.EXE, which is by default present in Windows.

See here for other useful MS-DOS commands.

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answered Sep 10, 2012 at 6:54

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