In Windows I have Scite (a text editor) set as the default program to open .pl files. That's fine when using explorer. But on the command line I would like to have a different program open .pl files. So basically, different defaults for explorer and cmd. How would I do this?
When using command line, can you use:
path to different app [space] path to pl file
Well, you can do that, but my question is about setting a default program for the file extension.
See method #5 in this thread: windows - Associate a File Type with a Specific Program - Super User
You will need to set it back to SciTE after the bulk of the batch file runs.
Unfortunately that didn't work for me:
But when I open a .pl file through cmd it still opens in Scite. I've tried restarting as well, but to no effect.Code:C:\Users\Djeyewater>ASSOC | grep '^^.pl=' .pl=Perl C:\Users\Djeyewater>FTYPE | grep 'Perl' Perl="C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %* PerlScriptFile=C:\Windows\System32\WScript.exe "%1" %*
Besides, if you need to set the default program back to what you want for opening the files via explorer when you're done on the command line, then that's not really what I wanted anyway. I think the answer to my question must simply be that it is not possible to have the command line and explorer use different default programs for the same extension.
I would not expect Windows to have separate default program association for Explorer and command. Both read thru the same list of file extensions/associations to start stuff. I doubt that you can double click on a pl file within Explorer and have SciTE open the file for editing and have batch files run pl files by default. Maybe some other forum member knows how to do that.
Changing the association (and then changing it back) within each batch file might be a work around until someone else posts to your thread. Or use the method I mentioned in post #2.
It appears that you did not use an elevated command prompt or maybe you changed the directory before making a copy of the info that you posted. Normally, the directory would be: C:\Windows\system32> for an an elevated command prompt.
If you look at the help offered via FTYPE /?
...you should see that MS used the pl extension on their example:
The reason the directory was different was because I was checking from an unelevated prompt after restarting the computer (which I did after setting from an elevated prompt and finding the changed settings had no effect). As you can see from the output I included in my post, it had registered the type and extension correctly. If it was possible to temporarily set the extension handler by using an unelevated command line, that would be a nice hack to achieve what I'm looking for. But sadly not.
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