Run command with drag and drop onto batch file

Question

I want to drag and drop a file onto a batch file in order to run the below command on it. How do I go about running the command on the dropped file?

PotreeConverter.exe <dropped file> -o C:/output -p index

Answer 1

The path of the file, when you drop it on the BATfile, will be returned as a normal %1 argument.

so :

@echo off
PotreeConverter.exe "%~1" -o C:/output -p index

You can use %* if you drop more then 1 file

Example :

@echo off

for %%a in (%*) do echo [%%a] was dropped on me 
pause

Answer 2

Following this easy guide.

Create a batch file test.bat with the contents

@echo off
echo The full path of the file is: %1
pause

Drag any file onto it, you will see that %1 is replaced with the full path for that file in quotes.

Now you know how to execute some command that takes a path to a file as an argument:

@echo off
some_command_that_takes_a_path_to_a_file %1