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Posted: **Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:44 pm**

I don't have experience in programming, I try to Run an external program on torrent completion but is not working.

I put the following: %windir%\system32\notepad.exe "%N", assuming that it will open a text file containing the name of the torrent that has just been completed but nothing happens.

Someone can give a help in that.

Thank you $:-\$

David

Posted: **Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:00 pm**

Hi David,
notepad.exe does not support a switch to insert text but the echo function can insert that text in.

The command to add text to a file is:

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echo "enter text" > filename.txt

You can chain it to open the text file afterwards:

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echo "enter text" > filename.txt & notepad filename.txt

Works fine in cmd but does not work in qbittorrent. Not sure why but here is my log in case someone knows:

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(N) 2020-01-07T13:20:31 - Torrent: TorrentName, running external program, command: echo &quot;TorrentName&quot; &gt; c:\users\myusername\newtext.txt &amp; notepad newtext.txt

Posted: **Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:13 am**

Thank you for your time. I tested on cmd and it works, I will continue to do tests.

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