Question for CMD experts

I know there are many individuals here skilled with CMD and shortcuts so here is my question...

I have a shortcut on my desktop which is a shortcut to Visual Studio compiler configuration which when opened loads development environment into the console that it opens.

Right click -> properties on that shortcut says this:

Target:

Code:

%comspec% /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"

Path:

Code:

C:\path\to\my projects

When the shortcut is opened it runs the command from "Target" entry and opens command line specified in "Path" entry.
Once it's opened I run the following command in the console:

Code:

code .

This open VSCode in the specified "Path" and picks up set evironment specified by "Target".

What I want to achieve is to modify either "Target" or "Path" property so that when I run the shortcut it will automatically open VSCode in the specified "Path" once the "Target" has been executed.

Is that possible and how would I modify this shortcut?

I'm confused about what you want.
You seem to be saying that it is already opening to the desired path.

Denis

Try3 said:

I'm confused about what you want.
You seem to be saying that it is already opening to the desired path.

It is opening the desired path but it not executing

Code:

code .

which I need to type each time the shortcut it run.
I wan to automate this and open VSCode in the path right away.

@garlin
Are you saying I should create a bat file that calls vcvars64.bat and then run code . in it?
and the path would be argument to that batch file?
I'll test it.

btw

Code:

code .

is a command to open VSCode in current working directory, I want to automate it.

@garlin
It works! thanks a lot, sadly I couldn't rep you.

but, why do I need to specify random file?
is there a way to specify just path?

EDIT:
OK, I figured out, it's as simple as:

Code:

call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
@echo arg1 is %1
cd %1
code .

But the %~p1 is unknown thing to me, now if I could only do this without creating a custom batch file, ex. doing it all in "Target" path...
But this will suffice for single click run.

zebal said:

But the %~p1 is unknown thing to me

There's a guide that doubles as a demo script for such parameters in
my ditty and demo for: Standard passable variables [post #47] - TenForums
There are other batch file guides, including a guide-demo for other variable manipulations, in
my ditty Batch file and PowerShell guides [post #16] - TenForums


All the best,
Denis

@Try3
Thanks I might take a look at this next time I face cmd related issues,
sadly it takes too much time to learn a language from zero, batch scripting has never been attractive to me :/

zebal said:

sadly it takes too much time to learn a language from zero, batch scripting has never been attractive to me :/

And, if you are ever going to put in the effort to learn something new, I think that effort will be better rewarded by studying PowerShell rather than batch scripting.

Denis