Comments on: Stupid Scripting question – what am I missing?

By: davidfigueroa

davidfigueroa — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:23:13 +0000

the forum is definitely removing back slash characters.. I know I had it in mine when I typed it out.

By: melvin

melvin — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:07:06 +0000

Thanks Everyone for the help. It was the double quotes issue.

I appreciated all of your input.

By: drmikec

drmikec — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:07:23 +0000

I see no backslashes – maybe the forum is stripping them? There should be a backslash between each folder name. Also, somewhere in the dregs of my memory, an environment variable in a batch file requires two % signs, e.g. %%userprofile%%

By: davidfigueroa

davidfigueroa — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:54:58 +0000

It should be:
copy Y:notesreg.lnk “%userprofile%Start MenuProgramsStartup”

(all one line of course)

You may want to add a /y to overwrite just in case.
copy /y Y:notesreg.lnk “%userprofile%Start MenuProgramsStartup”

Or you could do this:

if not exist “%userprofile%Start MenuProgramsStartupnotesreg.lnk” copy Y:notesreg.lnk “%userprofile%Start MenuProgramsStartup”

Since Y is a mapped drive, you may want to use UNC paths instead.

David Figueroa

By: aleccc

aleccc — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:39:52 +0000

add double quotes (“) around source and destination if they contain spaces, so that copy command doesn’t split them.

replace :
copy Y:notesreg.lnk %userprofile%Start MennuProgramsStartup
with:
copy Y:notesreg.lnk “%userprofile%Start MennuProgramsStartup”

By: ccbuff

ccbuff — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:19:18 +0000

try copy y:notesreg.lnk %userprofile%”Start Menu”ProgramsStartup /y

By: tegryan

tegryan — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:09:46 +0000

Menu has two N’s in it.

I tried posting a reply earlier, didn’t work for some reason, sorry if it ends up with a double post.

By: ghigbee

ghigbee — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:07:19 +0000

Try this:

copy Y:notesreg.lnk “%userprofile%Start MenuProgramsStartup” /y