Command line options for ES and Everything are different.
The basics:
For ES, just pass your Everything search directly. eg:
(this is the same as setting your Everything GUI search to)
For Everything.exe, use. eg:
(this will set your Everything GUI search to)
Please make sure your out.efu has a Filename header.
"Not a valid file list" means there's no Filename header.
Contents should look like:Escape any characters with double quotes ()
UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16 BE and ANSI are supported.
Please make sure each filename is on a separate line.
A .txt file list should look like:edit: Everything 1.4 only supports UTF-8 .txt files, please write your .txt files as UTF-8.
As long as the Everything GUI is running you shouldn't have any issues.
If you see any error codes, please report them here.
Authotkey:
The basics:
For ES, just pass your Everything search directly. eg:
es.exe *.txt foo bar(this is the same as setting your Everything GUI search to
*.txt foo barFor Everything.exe, use
-severything.exe -s "*.txt foo bar"(this will set your Everything GUI search to
*.txt foo barEFU files are CSV files.; but: "Unable to open file list: a:\out.efu is not a valid file list."
Please make sure your out.efu has a Filename header.
"Not a valid file list" means there's no Filename header.
Contents should look like:
Code:
Filenamec:\example\path\to\file.txtc:\example\path\to\file2.txt"c:\example\path\to\filename,with,commas.txt","Everything also supports text/plain files (.txt); but unfortunately, therube, your syntax (after creating a .txt file instead of an .efu file, obviously) doesn't work either
UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16 BE and ANSI are supported.
Please make sure each filename is on a separate line.
A .txt file list should look like:
Code:
c:\example\path\to\file.txtc:\example\path\to\file2.txtThat's fine, ES communicates with the Everything GUI.(As an aside: I have a copy of everything.exe in the c:\ main folder, also es.exe and everything64.dll, but not a complete EV installation (which is in c:\Program Files\Everything\)... so that may be the reason for my getting the error messages?)
As long as the Everything GUI is running you shouldn't have any issues.
If you see any error codes, please report them here.
The correct syntax is:So what would be the correct EV syntax to update its current window with some .efu file?
Code:
"c:\Program Files\Everything\everything.exe" -filelist "a:\out.efu" Code:
Run, "c:\Program Files\Everything\everything.exe" -filelist "a:\out.efu"Statistics: Posted by void — Wed Jun 24, 2026 2:03 am
