Question

I want to run the following in batch script where it takes an argument (a path)

runas /user:abc "icacls %1 /grant Everyone:(F) /T"

but the argument %1 already contains a " (because it’s a path, passed on by context menu’s Send To – I don’t have much control over this).
So when the command runs in batch script it runs like this:

runas /user:abc "icacls "c:\folder" /grant Everyone:(F) /T"

So obviously I need to escape the "s created by %1. How do I perform string manipulation over %1 such that it escaped the quotes?

Answer 1

You should be able to use \" Here is a site with a few other escape characters that you might find useful

To perform the string replace:

set temp=%1
set temp=%temp:"=\"%
echo %temp%