CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windowsbatch-file
Lucas K
Lucas K

Reputation: 13

Getting the source .exe file name from .lnk shortcut in batch script?

I have to extract source filename from .lnk shortcut in batch. The extracted text must be in (program name).(extension) form.

I must admit that I'm a complete laic, when it comes to batch (or any scripting actually), so any help concerning my question is highly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2139

Answers (1)

rojo
rojo

Reputation: 24476

You can do it with a wmic query to win32_shortcutfile. Just make sure all your backslashes are backslash-escaped within %filename%.

@echo off
setlocal

:: ensure user supplied a filename with a .lnk extension
if /i "%~x1" neq ".lnk" (
    echo usage: %~nx0 shortcut.lnk
    goto :EOF
)

:: set filename to the fully qualified path + filename
set "filename=%~f1"

:: convert single backslashes to double
set "filename=%filename:\=\\%"

:: get target
for /f "tokens=1* delims==" %%I in ('wmic path win32_shortcutfile where "name='%filename%'" get target /format:list ^| find "="') do (
    echo(%%J
)

What you want ends up in %%J. If you only want the target filename.ext, change that to %%~nxJ. If you want only the drive and path, change it to %%~dpJ. See the last page of help for in a cmd console for more info about variable expansion.

Upvotes: 5

Related Questions