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SysCommand with spaces in path?

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George Graham

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5/14/2010 2:48 AM

I have a command that i want to execute from SysCommand (windows server) hat references a unc path with spaces in it. I cant just surround the path with quotes because the syscommand executes this:

su -p ***** domain\USER -c "cmd.exe /C xxx" where xxx is my command

ive tried all different methods but cant seem to make it work. I've tried double quotes, single quotes, prefixing the quote with slash and backslash, etc

my work around is a fileaccess node to write my command to my own bat/cmd file and the call that file i just wrote but i would rather not do that.

thoughts?

Shane Jones

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5/15/2010 2:46 AM

Clever work-around.... I like when someone finds a creative way to work-around something that does not work the way it should.

Have you tried using %20 in place of the space.... I am thinking that since a URL would work with %20 in place of a space you might be able to do the same thing with a UNC path. Might be worth a try?

Rob Conrad

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5/20/2010 2:40 PM

George -

You might take a look at the way System Command executes your command - I ran into similar issues running a .bat script. Once I chose the "run program directly (no shell options)" selection under Execution Mode it worked nicely - you can see this on my Papervision flows A-D on TEST... :-). It looks like the script you have up there is trying to do a 'sudo' or account for Unix, I just got rid of all that and it works fine. I haven't tried \\BANDIT directories yet, but should get to that later today. See you here next week :-).

RC