So, is there an equivalent of quotemeta for Windows batch files? Or another workaround?
make a hard link with a shorter name without spaces and amperstands
or do the best and most closest approximation of quotemeta, see this.bat, this2.bat ... & is particularly stupid but doable this3.bat @setlocal
@set "thisfile=%~f0"
@echo "%thisfile%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:^=\^%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:>=^>%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:<=^<%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:&=^&%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:|=^|%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:)=^)%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:(=^(%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:[=^[%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:]=^]%"
@set "thisfile=%thisfile:"=\"%"
@echo escaped-thisfile "%thisfile%"
@echo;
@endlocal
$ "rock&roll\this3.bat"
"D:\rock&roll\this3.bat"
escaped-thisfile "D:\rock^&roll\this3.bat"
$ D:\rock^&roll\this3.bat
"D:\rock&roll\this3.bat"
escaped-thisfile "D:\rock^&roll\this3.bat"
Its triple interpolation, or eval interpolation , or ... whatever, its batguano :P
See also the following, maybe improve to make hard links for &nonsense vienv - Edit local environment variables on Win32, CleanPath , SetEnviron.bat
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