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.