Question

Yesterday I asked this post, but I am still having problems when I try to run this .bat file from my java project.

@echo off
set filename=%1
echo %filename | sed 's/\([A-Z]\)/ \1/g';

The call I do is:

String param = "myparam";  
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("myFile.bat", param);

But what myFile.bat does is just print %filename, so it doesn’t take the real value of the param I send.
What I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance

I tried also

@echo off
set filename=%1
echo %filename% | sed 's/\([A-Z]\)/ \1/g';

With the same result, now it prints %filename%.

Maybe some problems in the call??

Answer 1

You probably want to execute cmd.exe /c script.bat instead, so that cmd.exe (the command shell) will expand variables. In Windows, .bat files are not full fledged executables, just input files for the command processor (cmd.exe).