A free tool to help you to get the command line and parameters information of any program: CMDLine

CMDLine is a free tool program that will help you to get the command line information of any program. The command line information includes the path to the executable file of the program and the parameters the program used.

It is so easy to use this tool: just launch it, then move mouse to any window of the program you want to get its command line information, then the information will be shown in the main window of the CMDLine tool.

CMDLine will show the full command line information about the programs, for example, the following are the command line information of Windows Explorer (Normally Windows Explorer starts with no parameters):

C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE

If you double-click at a text document "C:\My Folder\MyFile.txt" to open the file with Notepad, then the CMDLine will show the command line information:

C:\Windows\Notepad.exe C:\My Folder\MyFile.txt

CMDLine needn't to be installed, you download the zip file, then extract to any of your folders, then double-click the "CmdLine.exe" to use it.

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Command line information will be different when changing options:

There are several options you can choose to customize the commandline information the tool program will show in its window. However, the actual command line will not be changed.

Let's use an example to show how will the options will affect the result:

double-click on a ZIP file by using WinRAR. The default command line information shown in the tool will be:

"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\YourAccountName\Desktop\getcmdline.zip"

Now enable Short path name format, the path to the program (WinRAR) will be changed:

C:\PROGRA~1\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\YourAccountName\YourAccountName\getcmdline.zip"

Now enable No parameters, the parameters will be removed:

C:\PROGRA~1\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe

Now choose Uppercase in the drop down box, the command line will be convert to uppercase:

C:\PROGRA~1\WINRAR\WINRAR.EXE

If you disable No parameters now, then the command line will be:

C:\PROGRA~1\WINRAR\WINRAR.EXE "C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\YOURACCOUNTNAME\DESKTOP\GETCMDLINE.ZIP"

Copy the command line information to clapboard:

Click "Copy" button to copy the current command line information to clipboard.

Stop/Start this tool at any time:

Click "Stop" button, then the tool will no longer get the command line information when moving mouse, and the button will become "Start". Click the same button again, then the tool will continue to get the command line information when moving mouse.

Free for noncommercial use:

The freeware version of CMDLine can be downloaded here.

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