Question

I’ve got a MS DOS command line issue, I’m trying to pass some arguments to a console application from a batch file as below (notice that [xemSA]” is actually on the previous line, stackoverflow is putting it on another line) :

SET server=devmos
   UploadToDevMos.exe /server=server% /file="~dpdocuments\Word2003.doc" /querystring:"frequentlyused=0&clienttemplate=0&DocType=Minute&doctype=Minute&clientcodes=[xemSA]"

However when I run the batch file notice that the /querystring has disappeared and spaces have been put around the &

C:\Temp\SJ\TestRunner\bin\Debug>SET server=devmos

C:\Temp\SJ\TestRunner\bin\Debug>UploadToDevMos.exe /server=devmos /file="C:\Temp
\SJ\TestRunner\bin\Debug\"frequentlyused=0  & clienttemplate=0  & DocType=Minute
  & doctype=Minute  & clientcodes=[JTCLuxemSA]"

How can I pass these arguments in a batch file correctly?

Kind regards

Simon Jackson

Answer 1

It’s something to do with the ~dp0 not expanding as expected. I think you missed the “0”

I changed my test to this, and it worked okay:

SET server=devmos

ECHO UploadToDevMos.exe /server=%server% /file="%~dp0documents\Word2003.doc" /querystring:"frequentlyused=0&clienttemplate=0&DocType=Minute&doctype=Minute&clientcodes=[xemSA]"