

Even more, you could use relative paths and first navigate to c:\Program Files(x86) before executing your command. That said, it would also be possible to use the 8.3 short names and thus truncate Program Files to Progra~1 or Progra~2. So in your case it would be: C:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C ""C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt"" C:test>test.bat testAFTER sub SETLOCAL C:test>set test Environment variable test not defined C:test>. You can see that the script never returned from the :ExitBatch call, and the test variable definition has been properly discarded once batch processing terminates.

Remove the last quote character on the command line, preserving Here is sample output of running the above test.bat. Otherwise, old behavior is to see if the first character isĪ quote character and if so, strip the leading character and the string between the two quote characters is the nameĢ. Where special is one of: there are one or more whitespace characters between the no special characters between the two quote characters, If all of the following conditions are met, then quote characters The switch is processed as a command line, where the following logic isġ. Here's a snipped from cmd /? If /C or /K is specified, then the remainder of the command line after 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.Ĭ:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt"Ĭ:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" \"C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt\"Ĭ:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt\""Ĭ:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" ""C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt""Ĭ:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" """C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt"""Ĭ:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" ^"C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt^"Ĭ:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" "^"C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt^""įunny that cmd.exe actually contains the answer.

These do not work: C:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt" If I try to run this via CMD /C, I found no way to coerce CMD.EXE to pass a quoted string as parameter to the exe file. The command, when run from the prompt, works fine, but needs quoting for its parameter: C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\uninstgs.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt"
#Cmd c exit windows#
I'm trying to run a command from Perl, using Windows 7's CMD /C.
