Escaping spaces in string variable in batch file

Question

Have a script that gets the current path and grabs the last two directories in that path

for /F "tokens=5,6 delims=\" %%a in ("%0") do (
    ECHO %%a
    ECHO %%b
)

output is:

2017
Customer 91 Folder

I need the output to look like:

2017
Customer\ 91\ Folder

I am using this variable to envoke and rsync script in linux which needs the directory path spaces escaped.

Thanks!

npocmaka · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-11 14:03:12Z

3

setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=5,6 delims=\" %%a in ("%0") do (
    ECHO %%a
    set "second_line=%%b"
    ECHO !second_line: =\ !
)

answered Aug 11, 2017 at 13:56

npocmaka

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Um, I'd suggest !second_line: =\ !...doesn't work with metavariables!