Unable to pass arguments with spaces to PowerShell script

[zBernie]

I have a simple Powershell script, lets call it test.ps:

param([String[]] $jpgfiles)

foreach ($jpgfile in $jpgfiles) {
"$jpgfile" | out-file -filepath "C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\dump.txt" -append
}

If I run the script from the command line like this in C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp:

test.ps "DSC_1443 - Copy.jpg", "DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg"

These file names with spaces in them are output to the file dump.txt which then looks like this:

DSC_1443 - Copy.jpg
DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg

If I select the two files in XYplorer, then run this script:

$var_file = quote(<get SelectedItemsPathNames '", "'>);
runret("%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -command C:\Users\bernie\PowerShell\im-datestamp-selection.ps1 " . "$var_file");


This is all I get in dump.txt:

C:\Users\bernie\Photo

What do I need to do in XYplorer to highlight the two file names with spaces, and pass them to test.ps?

[RalphM]

From your other posts re scripting and Powershell you should be aware by now that there's a whole lot more to know about quoting parameters in XY scripts and I'm sure you can find various examples on the forum and in the help file - or wait until another forum member comes up with a solution for exactly your problem. As I'm not an expert in scripting myself, I can only point you in the general direction.

On another note, what you're trying to achieve here - from what I understand, appending filenames to a text file - could easily be done within a XY script without an external call of Powershell.

[highend]

Why the hell do you recreate an already existing topic (of your own)?

Use $args in the .ps1 script and be done with the whole quoting stuff (which is a problem of powershell, not XY!)

test.ps1

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foreach ($item in $args) {
    "$item" | out-file -filepath "C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\dump.txt" -append
}

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    $files = quote(<get SelectedItemsPathNames '" "'>);
    runret("""powershell.exe"" -file ""<some path>\test.ps1"" $files");

[zBernie]

From your other posts re scripting and Powershell you should be aware by now that there's a whole lot more to know about quoting parameters in XY scripts and I'm sure you can find various examples on the forum and in the help file - or wait until another forum member comes up with a solution for exactly your problem. As I'm not an expert in scripting myself, I can only point you in the general direction.

On another note, what you're trying to achieve here - from what I understand, appending filenames to a text file - could easily be done within a XY script without an external call of Powershell.

I have tried various permutations of quoting arguments using XYplorer ad nauseam, NONE of which worked. This is really mind boggling. A simple PowerShell script that works like this on the command line:

test.ps "DSC_1443 - Copy.jpg", "DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg"

XYplorer is incapable of passing arguments with spaces in them, quoted and comma separated.

[highend]

XYplorer is incapable of passing arguments with spaces in them, quoted and comma separated.

Will you ever understand that this is not a problem caused by XY?

You doubt that, right?
Fine. Open a normal command prompt window ({WIN}cmd{ENTER})
Show me the line that calls your ps script (from the first post with no changes) with 3+ comma-separated files (that include spaces) as arguments, that works correctly...

[zBernie]

XYplorer is incapable of passing arguments with spaces in them, quoted and comma separated.

Will you ever understand that this is not a problem caused by XY?

You doubt that, right?
Fine. Open a normal command prompt window ({WIN}cmd{ENTER})
Show me the line that calls your ps script (from the first post with no changes) with 3+ comma-separated files (that include spaces) as arguments, that works correctly...

Here it is. The arguments passed to the script need to be quoted, and separated by a comma.

PS C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp> test.ps1 "C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg", "C:\Users\bernie\P
hoto Staging\tmp\DSC_1443 - Copy.jpg"


PS C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp> type dump.txt
C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg
C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1443 - Copy.jpg

[highend]

You even quoted what I wrote:

Open a normal command prompt window ({WIN}cmd{ENTER})

And instead you opened a powershell console? oO

[zBernie]

You even quoted what I wrote:

Open a normal command prompt window ({WIN}cmd{ENTER})

And instead you opened a powershell console? oO

From a cmd prompt:

C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp>powershell.exe -File C:\Users\bernie\PowerShell\test.ps1 "C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg", "C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1443 - Copy.jpg"


C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp>type dump.txt
C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg,

[highend]

And, is

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C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg,

the same as

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C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg
C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1443 - Copy.jpg

?

Surely not...

[zBernie]

And, is

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C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg,

the same as

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C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1441 - Copy.jpg
C:\Users\bernie\Photo Staging\tmp\DSC_1443 - Copy.jpg

?

Surely not...

Okay, so you've proved that DOS and XYplorer are both incapable of handling arguments with spaces in the name.

[highend]

Okay, so you've proved that DOS and XYplorer are both incapable of handling arguments with spaces in the name

This is getting ridiculous...

I've already posted a clean and working solution.
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