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    Michal Šunka
    last edited by Michal Šunka Aug 7, 2023, 8:39 AM Aug 7, 2023, 8:16 AM

    Hello,

    I might have a rather specific question - is there any possibility to launch Notepad++'s auto-updater from Windows commandline (powershell/cmd)?

    Use case is that I am working in corporate enviroment and I am requested to keep my tools updated (Notepad++ included).

    Since I have under my supervision something like 10 instalations at different servers, I would like to make a centralised (Ansible perheaps?) script which will connect to each server, and run some command to launch auto-update.

    I am avare that re-installing with Notepad++ binary downloaded at a side might do the trick, but I am curious anyway about the command :-)

    Thank you,
    Michal

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      PeterJones @Michal Šunka
      last edited by Aug 7, 2023, 1:45 PM

      @Michal-Šunka ,

      I’ve never done it, but from this piece of source code , I believe that when Notepad++ runs the updater, it is essentially running the bundled gup.exe, possibly with some command-line parameters

      When I did the search through the code on the getWingupCommands and things that influence it, I could only find the Plugins Admin using the command-line options. Oh, no, some more searching finds that when you run it through the ? > Update Notepad++ entry, it ends up running this section of code which didn’t use the getWingupCommands() call, but still adds command-line arguments.: you can dig into that section of code to see what command-line arguments it runs.

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        mkupper @Michal Šunka
        last edited by Aug 7, 2023, 4:17 PM

        @Michal-Šunka To add to what @PeterJones posted, you can run gup.exe --help (with two leading – dashes) and it’ll show you the command line options.

        Typically, when someone selects the ? / Update Notepad++ menu option it runs
        "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\updater\gup.exe" -verbose -v8.55 where the -v8.55 is the current version of Notepad++.

        gup.exe has a web site, https://wingup.org/ , but the details of the command line options don’t seem to be explained so you can figure out what works best for your setup.

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