Robocopy batch script skipping files with % in their names

YellowFeather · 2014-08-16 09:33:20

Hi all I'm trying to run a robocopy of listed files through a unicoded batch script. There are a lot of special characters in the filenames, and it seems to be working for all of them, except the %, which is failing every time. I've saved the bat as UTF8, and I'm running it through an unicoded command, and I've added the…

16-08-2014 09:33AM

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YellowFeather

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Hi all

I'm trying to run a robocopy of listed files through a unicoded batch script. There are a lot of special characters in the filenames, and it seems to be working for all of them, except the %, which is failing every time. I've saved the bat as UTF8, and I'm running it through an unicoded command, and I've added the chcp 65001 switch to my bat. It is just having an issue with the %s.

Would anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this?

Thanks!

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#2 16-08-2014 09:57AM

YellowFeather

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Nevermind. The issue was obviously in the cmd rather than the robocopy so I got around it by doubling up the %s in the script so that it would recognise them as actual characters. Hurray.

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