Detect if bat file is running via double click or from cmd window

Question

I have a bat file that does a bunch of things and closes the cmd window which is fine when user double clicks the bat file from explorer. But if I run the bat file from a al

Answer 1

A consolidated answer, derived from much of the information found on this page:

:pauseIfDoubleClicked
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set testl=%cmdcmdline:"=%
set testr=!testl:%~nx0=!
if not "%testl%" == "%testr%" pause

1. The variable "testl" gets the full line of the cmd processor call (as per mousio), stripping out all of the pesky double quotes.
2. The variable "testr" takes "testl" and further strips outs the name of the current batch file name if present (which it will be if the batch file was invoked with a double-click).
3. The if statement sees if "testl" and "testr" are different. If yes, batch was double-clicked, so pause; if no, batch was typed in on command line, go on.

Naturally, if you want to do something else if you detect a double-click, you can change the pause.

Thanks everyone.