Pass dragged filename to Windows shortcut

Question

I want to create a shortcut for a command line tool, so that when I drag files onto it, it will pass the filename to the tool as part of the command line arguments (with quotations around it or whatever so that paths with spaces work), and then keep the terminal open after it has finished. Specifically:

cmd /k "C:\Program Files (x86)\SRecord\bin\srec_info.exe" "%<something goes here>" --guess

Is this possible? What goes after the percent sign? What's this called?

Answer 1

%1

This will pass the path to the file.

test.bat:

echo %1
pause

Drag in "C:\Users\user\Desktop\nospaces.exe", result:

C:\Users\user\Desktop\nospaces.exe

Drag in "C:\Users\user\Desktop\file with spaces.exe", result:

"C:\Users\user\Desktop\file with spaces.exe"

So you can write;

cmd /k "C:\Program Files (x86)\SRecord\bin\srec_info.exe" "%1" --guess

and it should receive the path+filename in the same way the bat file did. (See above).