Question

So try this for loop on your Windows box

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims==" %a in ('wmic service list full^|find /i "pathname"^|find /i /v "system32"') do dir %b

This works just fine for me but when I use the icacls command instead of dir I get an error that says icacls fails to process

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims==" %a in ('wmic service list full^|find /i "pathname"^|find /i /v "system32"') do icacls %b

If I run icacls against any of the output one at a time it works just fine

icacls c:\windows\ehome\ehrecvr.exe

Also I echo the command just to make sure everything looks kosher and it

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims==" %a in ('wmic service list full^|find /i "pathname"^|find /i /v "system32"') do @echo icacls %b

any suggestion?

Answer 1

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why that fails. But using do call icacls %b seems to get around the problem.

But service options are included in %b, and they cause icacls to fail because they are invalid options for icacls.

The simplest solution seems to be to switch to a batch file that calls a subroutine. The unwanted options are stripped by just processing %1.

Just to be safe, better to use "tokens=1*" in case " appears in any of the paths.

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1* delims==" %%a in ('wmic service list full^|find /i "pathname="^|find /i /v "system32"') do call :doit %%b
exit /b

:doit
icacls %1