Open Notepad++ from PowerShell
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How can I open up a file in Notepad++ from the Powershell command line?
Powershell Solutions
Solution 1 - Powershell
Inside powershell I can simply use the start and get general results
to open a python file with notepad++ here is what I did.
Start notepad++ ex1.py
this will start notepad++ and load the file ex1.py assuming you are in the same directory as the .py file. You can change that by adding the full path name
start notepad++ c:\users\you\desktop\files\ex1.py
Hope this helps!
Solution 2 - Powershell
Because the default path contains spaces, you have to quote the path to the exe. However because PowerShell is also a scripting language. A string by itself is simply evaluated as a string e.g.:
C:\ PS> 'Hello world'
Hello world
So you have to tell PowerShell you want to invoke the command that is named by the string. For that you use the call operator & e.g.:
C:\ PS> & 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe'
or if notepad++ is in your path:
C:\ PS> notepad++
or if you're in the same dir as the exe:
C:\ PS> .\notepad++
Solution 3 - Powershell
To open Notepad++ with and create a new empty file in the current path
start notepad++ newFile.txt
To open Notepad++ with an existing file
start notepad++ apples.txt
To specify the path and open multiple files
start notepad++ fruits/apples.txt, fruits/oranges.txt, package.json
Solution 4 - Powershell
To extrapolate on the previous answers and tie them up in a tidy bow: If you want to open a file with spaces in the path or name:
. 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe' 'C:\Temp\File With Spaces.txt'
or
& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe' 'C:\Temp\File With Spaces.txt'
It can also be set it as an alias:
Set-Alias -Value 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe' -Name 'NotePad'
$FileWithSpaces = 'C:\T e m p\File With Spaces.txt'
NotePad $FileWithSpaces
The top line here can be copied into (one of) your $Profile .ps1 file(s) so you don't need to keep using Set-Alias in every new PS instance.
Solution 5 - Powershell
I know this is an old question, but I found a bit of a workaround, quite by accident, and it is extremely straightforward. If you install and maintain Notepad++ via Chocolatey (think apt-get for Windows, but built on top of NuGet), then you get a shim that can be invoked from the command line.
cinst notepad++
And even if you already have an existing installation of Notepad, you can still "install" it from Chocolatey, and it will pull in the existing installation and maintain it.
I use Chocolatey for as much as I possibly can, because you can update everything in one fell swoop.
After that, editing things from PowerShell is a snap. Like my PowerShell profile:
notepad++ $PROFILE
Hope this helps someone, or several someones!
Solution 6 - Powershell
In my case, I wanted to start Notepad++ with a file as an argument, and open as admin. I wanted to open one of the PowerShell profiles. I had to use the following command variation:
start-process -Verb runas -filepath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" "`"$($PROFILE.AllUsersAllHosts)`""
All the other variations didn't work, I think due to a space in the path of the file to be opened. So, you must escape the " as:
"He said `"This is fun.`""