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

after reading through the suggestions, this is what I went with:

set __cmdcmdline=%cmdcmdline%
set __cmdcmdline=%__cmdcmdline:"=%
set __cmdcmdline=%__cmdcmdline: =%
set __cmdcmdline=%__cmdcmdline:~0,5%
if "%__cmdcmdline%"=="cmd/c" set CMD_INITIATED_FROM_EXPLORER=1
set __cmdcmdline=

which conditionally sets the variable: CMD_INITIATED_FROM_EXPLORER

..and can subsequently be used as needed:

if defined CMD_INITIATED_FROM_EXPLORER (
  echo.
  pause
)

..but the issue regarding Powershell that @Ruben Bartelink mentions isn't solved:

running ./batch.cmd from Powershell uses cmd /c under the hood