Update CLI command

Michal Šunka

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

PeterJones

@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.

mkupper

@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.