cd shell:sendto

[w_krieger]

Something i would like to see is to be able to change to directories like 'sendto' or 'program files' by way of cd shell:sendto or something.

Typing shell:sendto will open the correct folder in explorer.

 

[drrob106]

I am running WinXP SP2 and v11.

You can do what you wish in your alias file.
I have this line in my tcstart.bat
alias/r aliasdef.txt

And in aliasdef.txt I have this line
docs:=%userprofile\My Documents\

This lets me copy files to My Documents by
copy * docs:

and I can
cd docs:
or
cdd docs:

You can define whatever you like to be
sendto:progfiles:
You get the point.

Good Luck
--rob

On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 01:36 -0600, w_krieger wrote:

> Something i would like to see is to be able to change to directories like 'sendto' or 'program files' by way of cd shell:sendto or something.
>
> Typing shell:sendto will open the correct folder in explorer.
>
>
>
>

 

[samintz]

You could do something similar to that using directory aliases.

for example:

alias sendto:="%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH\SendTo"

You can also use the @SHFOLDER function and assign that to a directory
alias.

alias sendto:=%@SHFOLDER[9]

-Scott




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Something i would like to see is to be able to change to directories like
'sendto' or 'program files' by way of cd shell:sendto or something.

Typing shell:sendto will open the correct folder in explorer.

 

[w_krieger]

Unfortunately using something like %userprofile%\ etc does not work, because these are in different directories according to the windows version.

You could do it by the means i do it:

cdd %_regquery["HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Sendto"]%

I mean is it possible to shorten this to something like

cdd %_shfolder[Sendto]%

where _shfolder would search HKCU and HKLM (in that order) for the relevant folder?

 

[dcantor]

Unfortunately using something like %userprofile%\ etc does not work, because these are in different directories according to the windows version.

You could do it by the means i do it:

cdd %_regquery["HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Sendto"]%

I mean is it possible to shorten this to something like

cdd %_shfolder[Sendto]%

where _shfolder would search HKCU and HKLM (in that order) for the relevant folder?

Here's a VERY minimally tested prototype function:

@echo off
rem File C:\work\shellfolder.btm
rem Dave Cantor, 13 Nov 2009

set targdir=%1
set x=-1
if not defined targdir goto done

do regkey in /L HKCU HKLM
  set x=%@regquery["%regkey%\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\%targdir"]
  if "%x" ne "-1" leave
 enddo

:done
echo %x
quit

Save this as (e.g.) c:\work\shellfolder.btm
Define a function as

function shellfolder=`%@execstr[c:\work\shellfolder.btm %$]`

and use it as

echo %@shellfolder[sendto]

It will return -1 if there is no such folder defined or if one was not specified. If there is a definition for the requested folder, the name is returned, but it might not exist. You can a check for existence if you want.

 

[samintz]

TCC already has this function built-in. See @SHFOLDER[].

-Scott


w_krieger <> wrote on 11/13/2009 02:30:51 AM:

> Unfortunately using something like %userprofile%\ etc does not work,
> because these are in different directories according to the windows

version.

>
> You could do it by the means i do it:
>
> cdd %_regquery["HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp
> lorer\Shell Folders\Sendto"]%
>
> I mean is it possible to shorten this to something like
>
> cdd %_shfolder[Sendto]%
>
> where _shfolder would search HKCU and HKLM (in that order) for the
> relevant folder?
>
>

 

[dcantor]

TCC already has this function built-in. See @SHFOLDER[].

Yes, but the original poster is looking for a way of specifying the name of the folder, not a number.

 

[Charles Dye]

Yes, but the original poster is looking for a way of specifying the name of the folder, not a number.

alias sendto:=%@shfolder[9]\

works for me.

 

[dcantor]

alias sendto:=%@shfolder[9]\

works for me.

Well, sure, but I interpreted the original poster's request as using sendto as an example. I suspect he wants to be able to find Desktop, Fonts, and the other special folders as well. My response was for the general case, but not quite complete, of course.

In my .btm that I posted, replace the single occurrence of "%1" with "%$" without quotation marks.

 

[samintz]

While having text makes the script easier to read and using the @shfolder
function at the command line requires knowing magic numbers, I would
suspect that most people that use that function use it with directory
aliases or buried within a batch file. That means you look up the number
you want in the help file, program it, and then forget about it.

The folders are named different things in different languages. So using a
number makes it work across all languages.

if %APPDATA or sendto is a folder I go to often, then it's easier to
define a directory alias and use that instead of remembering/typing all
the subtlies.

-Scott

dcantor <> wrote on 11/13/2009 07:24:34 PM:

> Quote:
>
> Originally Posted by Charles Dye [image removed]
> Code:
> alias sendto:=%@shfolder[9]\
> works for me.
>
> Well, sure, but I interpreted the original poster's request as using

sendto

> as an example. I suspect he wants to be able to find Desktop, Fonts,
> and the other special folders as well. My response was for the
> general case, but not quite complete, of course.
>
> In my .btm that I posted, replace the single occurrence of "%1" with
> "%$" without quotation marks.
>
>

 

[w_krieger]

You could set a function like this eset /f shfolder line:

shfolder=%@regquery["HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\%1"]

It gives under Windows XP: ("google hivefix.inf for the trick!")

[Q:\save\mswin\EXE]echo %@shfolder[sendto]
Q:\USERS\Wendy\SendTo

 

[[email protected]]

It's actually

cdd %@regquery["HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\SendTo"]
----- Original Message -----
From: w_krieger
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Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 02:31 AM
Subject: RE: [Suggestions-t-1560] Re: cd shell:sendto


Unfortunately using something like %userprofile%\ etc does not work, because these are in different directories according to the windows version.

You could do it by the means i do it:

cdd %_regquery["HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\Shell Folders\Sendto"]%

I mean is it possible to shorten this to something like

cdd %_shfolder[Sendto]%

where _shfolder would search HKCU and HKLM (in that order) for the relevant folder?

 

[w_krieger]

I posted strings from a working command prompt, so i suppose HKCU works too.

In any case, the shfolder[sendto] expands to the expression ye give, save for HKCU for hkey-current-user.