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Wolf Metzner
Wolf Metzner

Reputation: 103

Unable to start .bat script under Windows 7

This is strange: in general, .bat scripts work fine on this machine. So the PATH variable is fine.

However, I have one script that creates the error message
--> 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe\' is not recognized as an internal ....

Here is the one-line script:
--> @echo %1 | "C:\Program Files\putty\PSFTP.exe" -pw xxx User@Host

This script is working fine on two other Windows 7 machines, just not on mine. Any ideas what to check?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 970

Answers (2)

Wolf Metzner
Wolf Metzner

Reputation: 103

Actually, the problem had nothing to do with the specific command. Even a dir | dir from the command line threw the same error. I did find the solution here: https://superuser.com/questions/557387/pipe-not-working-in-cmd-exe-on-windows-7 Problem was the environment variable ComSpec; somehow it had a bad character in the field. I removed that darn back-slash and all is fine.

Thanks for looking at my problem.

Upvotes: 0

anon
anon

Reputation: 51

Is it possible you are using a 64bit version of Windows?. The path may need to be set to point to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Putty"

Upvotes: 1

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