Windows 10: Batch file does not recognize spaces, unable to get it to follow UNC path with spaces.

Hello,


I am trying to create a batch file which will pull an .exe from a UNC file path that has spaces in it but I can't figure out how to use the quotations to make it work.


So far I've tried the following:


@echo off

start "\\servername\sharepath\share path\setup.exe"



@echo off

start ""\\servername\sharepath\share path\setup.exe""



@echo off

start "" \\servername\sharepath\share path\setup.exe



@echo off

start "" \\servername\sharepath\share path\setup.exe ""


The batch file just tells me it can't find that UNC path. I've looked at countless stack overflow articles to no avail. Any assistance is appreciated.

:)

 

How to move and link files

1. Place your batch file (or a shortcut to it) on your desktop, then drop the file to be moved and linked onto the shortcut. Its name & path will appear as the first batch file argument (%1).
2. Use UNC paths when creating your symbolic links with mklink.

 

Batch files fail pathing and [%04d]

1 When running in Administrator mode batch files automatically take on the Windows\System32 folder unless a prefix is added to the top of the file.

command example: copy file1.txt "C:\Users\Public\Test\."

result copies file in current folder to "C:\Users\Public\Test\file1.txt"

result from batch file as admin is an error stating "File not found" because Admin mode attempts to call commands listed in file from [Windows\System32] folder.

include [cd %~dp0] at top of batch file to ensure commands run from the folder the batch file resides in.

2 When running ffmpeg.exe in one folder and writing files to another folder from a batch file Windows automatically pastes the entire path and the batch file name prior to every attempted file write.

ffmpeg command example :

bin\ffmpeg.exe -i "C:\Users\JoeMatize\Videos\Logitech Webcam\video 3.wmv" -r 15 "frames-%04d.bmp"

then windows creates 15 frames per second naming files [frames-0001.bmp] through [frames-0015.bmp] for the 1st second and continuing through the entire file

But ffmCmd.bat file contains the command attempts to create the output file as...

"C:\_dev\_Video\FFMPeg_Zeranoe\ffmpeg-20160517-git-af3e944-win64-static\ffmCmd.bat4d.bmp"

ffmpeg fails when it is unable to acquire a new name for the sequential files.

is there another command that will fix the batch call to ffmpeg, like the one that fixes the administrative mode path?

When will Microsoft fix the batch files so they work consistently across the board?

 

Calling Batch File People

I just created a simple batch file that displays the current dir ('echo %cd%' command). Placed that file on a non-mapped network share ('\\FILES\Storage' in my case) and run it from there. I got this

The first part is a warning that CMD.EXE gave me when I started the batch file. The last bit - C:\Windows - is the output of 'echo %cd%' command.

I.e. when the current dir is specified by an UNC path, then the batch shell simply defaults to C:\Windows as the current dir. Apparently this is exactly what happens in your case.

There could be something else at work here (which is hard to figure out without knowing more about your setup), but the fact that you see "network" address as the path means that the current location will be specified by an UNC path. The rest follows.