I love it. But it's very slow.

[futuremotiondev]

Is there a way to make the invoked command execute faster? I have a custom context menu item that simply adds selected files to a new folder. But it takes about half a second for it to complete. Terracopy has an extension that does the same thing but it's nearly instant.

Sorry for being critical, you've done some amazing work.

[ge9]

Hi, I implemented a more versatile version of this.

https://github.com/ge9/ExecuteCommand-Pipe

It can pass input files to any program through standard input (in UTF-8), so can be used to run any command (in combination with xargs, etc.).
It's implemented using COM (Component Object Model) method, so no interprocess communication (thus much less time lag), and no limitation on path length or number of files.

[jackusay]

it has --si-timeout {time to wait in msecs}. That's why it needs half a second. Change the value you need.

[mdnava]

Hi, I implemented a more versatile version of this.

https://github.com/ge9/ExecuteCommand-Pipe

It can pass input files to any program through standard input (in UTF-8), so can be used to run any command (in combination with xargs, etc.). It's implemented using COM (Component Object Model) method, so no interprocess communication (thus much less time lag), and no limitation on path length or number of files.

It seems to send arguments with line breaks?

[ge9]

Yes, each path is suffixed by "\n" (LF) and then concatenated.

[mdnava]

Yes, each path is suffixed by "\n" (LF) and then concatenated.

Wouldn't be much more useful to send them as proper args?, like: prog.exe arg1 arg2 arg3 As it works with singleinstance.exe ?..

[ge9]

I chose this design because Windows has 32767 character command line length limit. Users may run a command on many files at a deep directory. Converting stdin to commandline args is easily done by xargs. But your design also sounds good. I'll work on this. Thank you for the feature request.

[mdnava]

I chose this design because Windows has 32767 character command line length limit. Users may run a command on many files at a deep directory. Converting stdin to commandline args is easily done by xargs. But your design also sounds good. I'll work on this. Thank you for the feature request.

I did not make singleinstance.exe .. But I have been using it for at least 5 years in Windows context menus.. It has been working perfectly, but I've been looking for an option only because there is not proper order of sent files, when the desired outcome would be for the currently selected file to be the first argument.

In your utility, perhaps giving an additional option to send arguments in line would be helpful.