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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?

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.

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

RalphM wrote: ↑02 Dec 2018 08:08 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.

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...

highend wrote: ↑02 Dec 2018 21:24

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

You even quoted what I wrote:

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

And instead you opened a powershell console? oO

highend wrote: ↑03 Dec 2018 06:56 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,

And, is the same as ?

Surely not...

highend wrote: ↑04 Dec 2018 07:54 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.

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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