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Windows Batch: open multiple url tabs based on txt file

Hello experts,

I have the following bat file which allows me to open automatically multiple tabs.
I would like to add the following requirement:

@echo off

SET BROWSER=chrome.exe
SET WAIT_TIME=2
START %BROWSER% -new-tab "url"
START %BROWSER% -new-tab "url2”"

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Instead of reporting url I would like to loop a url.txt which contains the various urls.
Error checking:
If url.txt file doesn’t exists

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Bill Prew

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Luis Diaz

ASKER

Thank you Bill, Possible to report URL_LIST variable with an specific path such as "C:\Test"?

Bill Prew

You can use any valid file name.

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Qlemo

That is you just add the path to the variable:

SET URL_LIST=C:\Test\url.txt

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Luis Diaz

ASKER

Noted. Unable to test it right now. I will test it as soon as I can.

Luis Diaz

ASKER

Tested and it works! Thank you very much for your help.
I have a question, if I want to add a comment in url.txt file in front of url which string or character should I use.

Example

http://url "comment"
http://url2 "comment2

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Thank you again for your help.

Bill Prew

The way it is set up currently you can't. It takes the whole line as the URL.

If you wanted you could select a character as the comment start and ignore anything after that (space, pipe, semi colon, etc). Then a small change to the FOR /F loop would be needed to accommodate that.

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Luis Diaz

ASKER

Ok, In that cas what I will do is to comment directly through rem in the bat file. Thank you again for your help. Bill!

Bill Prew

Welcome.