How to display current time in Notepad++ console dialog?

Question

I am trying to display the current timestamp in the console dialog of Notepad++.

If I give the command in the Execute... dialog

echo %time%

I get

%time%
================ READY ================

and the current time is not being displayed like it would in the cmd prompt.

Does anyone know how to get the time printed?

Answer 1

Try

cmd /c echo %time%

that should do the trick.

Some background information: echo is a build-in command of the windows command shell cmd, not an executable, so you cannot run it directly by Notepad++. But cmd has a command line option /c where you can pass build-ins as a parameter, to let the command shell execute them for you. The @ sign is only understood within the command shell, too.