Question

I have a simple bat script that copies files from an known directory to a directory given by the user. How can I pass the path (it might contain spaces) to my script and use it with the xcopy command?

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In my code i have the following

:READ_PWA_PATH     if '%1' == '' (          rem Set default path         set PWA_PATH='C:\Program Files\PWA'         rem         echo You have not specified your PWA url.         echo Default will be assumed: C:\Program Files\PWA.          choice /C:YN /M:'Do you wish to continue [Y] or cancel the script [N]?'             IF ERRORLEVEL ==2 GOTO CANCEL             IF ERRORLEVEL ==1 GOTO READ_WSS_SERVER_EXTENSIONS_PATH         GOTO END     ) else (         set PWA_PATH=%1     ) 

If I simply call the script I get the following error:

C:\Projects\Setup>install.cmd 'C:\program files (x86)'  ----------------- SETUP SCRIPT -----------------  files was unexpected at this time. C:\Projects\Setup> 

Answer 1

Interesting one. I love collecting quotes about quotes handling in cmd/command.

Your particular scripts gets fixed by using %1 instead of ‘%1’ !!!

By adding an ‘echo on’ ( or getting rid of an echo off ), you could have easily found that out.