Question

If I execute

cmd /c "%programfiles%\mycode\md5sums.exe" %temp%

it works just fine. But when I execute

cmd /c "%programfiles%\mycode\md5sums.exe" %programfiles%

I get below error-

Error: Unable to read file/directory C:\Program

which means that md5sums.exe is trying to open C:\Program as opposed to full path given by %programfiles%

I’ve to use cmd /c as I’ve to run this command remotely.

How do I make it work?
I’ve tried using `”%programfiles%” but in this case even md5sums.exe is not getting executed.

Eventually I would like to use switch “/b” provided by md5sums.exe but at this point of time I am stuck at even making md5sums run on %programfiles%

Answer 1

Try:

cmd /c "%programfiles%\mycode\md5sums.exe" "%programfiles%"
                                           ^--------------^--quotes added

Otherwise, you end up with something like:

cmd /c "C:\Program Files\mycode\md5sums.exe" C:\Program Files

and end up passing two arguments to md5sums, not a single path.