Opening A Batch File In Notepad++ In The Folder Where Notepad++ Is Opened

Garvit Joshi

I Made A Batch File Which Would Open In Notepad++ From The CURRENT DIRECTORY where the batch file is located(with run… feature in notepad++), But I Want batch file to open on the folder where i have opened the file.
Example:
My Batch File Is Located In D:\Projects\Java\Executor Java.bat
I Have Opened A File Of .java Extension in D:\Java\Files
I Want to open at file location,i.e. D:\Java\Files
My batch file Looks like this:

@ECHO OFF
ECHO                                        WELCOME TO EXECUTOR
ECHO                                                         -Garvit Joshi(garvitjoshi9@gmail.com)
ECHO                                                          USER:%USERNAME%
cd /d "%~dp0"
:first
ECHO LOOKING FOR FILES IN:"%~dp0"
set /p "input=Enter The File You Want To Execute:"
ECHO ===============================
javac %input%.java
ECHO ===============================
set /p "input=Enter The Class You Want To Run:"
ECHO ===============================
ECHO OUTPUT:
ECHO ===============================
java %input%
ECHO ===============================
pause
ECHO =======================================================
ECHO *******************************************************
ECHO =======================================================
goto first

Garvit Joshi

I Have Asked this question on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60395741/opening-a-batch-file-in-notepad-in-the-folder-where-notepad-is-opened?noredirect=1#comment106841929_60395741

PeterJones

As the folks in SO told you, your batch file is doing a CD into the batch file’s directory; what else did you expect to happen? If you don’t want to change intot hte batch file directory, then you cannot have cd /d "%~dp0 in your batch file.

If you want to run a batch file from within the current file’s directory, or want to have the batch change directory, there are multiple options. For now, I will be using Run > Run as my example, but if you need it as part of your UserDefinedCommands like before, it can be easily tweaked.

I am doing extra, to help you debug things when it goes wrong for you.

changedir then launch batch (so no cd in .bat):

Run>Run cmd /c "cd /d $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) & echo %CD% & "D:\Projects\Java\Executor Java.bat" & pause"
- the cd /d $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) will change to the directory and drive of the currently active file. If the currently active file is your batch file, that’s what directory it will go to; if your current active file is one of your java files, then that’s the directory it will go to
- the echo %CD% will print the current directory (after changing) to the cmd window
- the "D:\Projects\Java\Executor Java.bat" will run the batch file in the active directory – ie, where you just cd’d into
- the pause will prompt for hitting enter before exiting the Run>Run command

Or, you could pass the current file’s directory, and do the cd inside the batch file:

@ECHO OFF
echo ==== INFO BATCH ====
echo old dir "%cd%"
echo arg1 "%~1"
echo cd /d "%~dp1"
cd /d "%~dp1"
echo current dir "%cd%"

Then from the Run>Run, you do a debug command like cmd /c "cd %TEMP% & "D:\Projects\Java\Executor Java.bat" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" & pause"

first I change into TEMP directory, so you know that the cd works properly inside the batch
then you run the batch, passing it the active file’s full current path (drive, folder, and filename)
- inside the batch, it changes into the drive and folder for the first argument
then you pause again

When you are done debugging this one, it becomes Run>Run "D:\Projects\Java\Executor Java.bat" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" or Run>Run cmd /c""D:\Projects\Java\Executor Java.bat" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"", depending on whether you want a wrapper cmd.exe or not

Ekopalypse

@Garvit-Joshi

Do you know NppExec plugin?
Maybe worth to have a look.