How to make .bat file open a file from any location?

[BatchEr2]

I've been doing this batch file since yesterday, and I'd like some help on this one;
If my friend downloads the .zip, extracts it somewhere and runs the .bat that opens a html file, how can the bat locate it?
On my own computer it is: C:\Users\käyttäjä1\Desktop\Download, but ofcourse the other guy doesn't have the same username.
I'd like to send this to few of my friends (not a spambot), so finding out their usernames is not an option.
Is this possible?
Vista, 7 (and sample please?

[aGerman]

The path (including the trailing backslash) where the script is located can be found in %~dp0. This parameter can be used if you append the file names or pathes located relative to your script. Say there is a test.html in the same directory, see what

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echo "%~dp0test.html"

outputs.

Regards
aGerman

[BatchEr2]

The path (including the trailing backslash) where the script is located can be found in %~dp0. This parameter can be used if you append the file names or pathes located relative to your script. Say there is a test.html in the same directory, see what

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echo "%~dp0test.html"

outputs.

Regards
aGerman

Thank you so much!

[BatchEr2]

Well now, that works well, but how I do make it read from subfolders?
The bat is in a .zip file, with a folder with the html files etc.

[foxidrive]

You would extract the files and folders and then run the bat file, right?

[Endoro]

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for /r "%~dp0" %%i in (*.html) do echo %%~fi

[BatchEr2]

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for /r "%~dp0" %%i in (*.html) do echo %%~fi

Could you explain this please? Do I just replace the star with the file name?

You would extract the files and folders and then run the bat file, right?

Yes, but if possible, no.

[foxidrive]

You would extract the files and folders and then run the bat file, right?

Yes, but if possible, no.

That's what I thought - you cannot execute a batch file and have it use related files from an archive.

You'd need to unzip the archive with folders, and then in the batch file you would use relative paths like this:

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@echo off
start "" "folder_one\internet.html"

where the file internet.html is inside "folder_one" that was inside the ZIP archive and assuming the batch file was not in a folder in the ZIP archive.

Am I sufficiently clear in the description?

[BatchEr2]

You would extract the files and folders and then run the bat file, right?

Yes, but if possible, no.

That's what I thought - you cannot execute a batch file and have it use related files from an archive.

You'd need to unzip the archive with folders, and then in the batch file you would use relative paths like this:

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@echo off
start "" "folder_one\internet.html"

where the file internet.html is inside "folder_one" that was inside the ZIP archive and assuming the batch file was not in a folder in the ZIP archive.

Am I sufficiently clear in the description?

Quite so. But now with that code, Chrome tries to open 'source/page.html' ("source" is my folder inside the .zip, the bat file comes with the .zip, but is not in the subfolder)
and ofcourse it won't just work.

[foxidrive]

I don't know where the bat is.

Explain the paths of the bat file and the folder with the HTML


If the paths of the extracted files are:

current folder\go.bat
current folder\source\page.html

then the code I gave before will work, with source\page.html

[BatchEr2]

Yeah, thanks, got it all working.
My friends will kill me after opening this.

[foxidrive]

I am hoping your joke is trivial and totally non-destructive.

If it's at all damaging then don't distribute it, k?

[Endoro]

It is our responsibility to answer questions here.

[Squashman]

It is our responsibility to answer questions here.

But those of us who are moderators have to keep a close eye on kids who are just trying to be malicious or who have no idea what they are doing because their scripts could destroy someones data. Those threads will be closed.