Escape special character in a windows batch

Question

I have a batch file that receive a path as first argument. The path is always composed with specials characters like ^,é or è.

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Answer 1

You need to escape the caret signs at the command line or better put the path into quotes.

In both cases you should work with delayed expansion, as then the content will not be modified when it is expanded.

myBatch "C:\LASTNAME^Firstname\image"

or

myBatch C:\LASTNAME^^Firstname\image

And in your batch use swomething like this

@echo off
set "arg1=%~1"
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
echo !arg1!