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Scayze
Scayze

Reputation: 75

BATch forfiles, command with quotation

So, I'm trying to rescale a bunch of images at once with a program called ImageResizer, and the command forfiles.

But since I have to use quotation marks for both, the command itself, and an argument inside of it, that won't work: 

ERROR: Argument/Option invalid- '4x /save @FILE'.

How do I handle those two strings in batch? I found some similar questions, but I didn't get it to work.

Here's my code:

@echo off
cd %~dp0
cd gfx
forfiles /s /m *.png /c "C:\Users\Manu\Desktop\NeuerOrdner\ImageRes.exe /load @FILE /resize auto "XBR 4x" /save @FILE"
pause

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2147

Answers (2)

ePandit
ePandit

Reputation: 3243

FORFILES recognizes \" as the way of escaping inner ". So try this:

forfiles /s /m *.png /c "C:\Users\Manu\Desktop\NeuerOrdner\ImageRes.exe /load @FILE /resize auto \"XBR 4x\" /save @FILE"

Upvotes: 0

npocmaka
npocmaka

Reputation: 57252

this is a bug in forfiles.And you need to encode quotes with 0x22

you can try like this:

@echo off
setlocal
set "path=%path%;C:\Users\Manu\Desktop\NeuerOrdner\" 
cd %~dp0
cd gfx
forfiles /s /m *.png /c "ImageRes.exe ImageRes.exe /load @FILE /resize auto 0x22XBR 4x0x22 /save @FILE"
endlocal
pause

or 

@echo off
cd %~dp0
cd gfx
forfiles /s /m *.png /c "C:\Users\Manu\Desktop\NeuerOrdner\ImageRes.exe  /load @FILE /resize auto 0x22XBR 4x0x22 /save @FILE"
pause

(additional space after imageres.exe)

Upvotes: 3

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