Hello Athanasius,

apart from my allergy to any non ascii chars in everything in any os, if i remember correctly Strawberry told me something like:"Strawberry Perl cannot be installed in a directory with spaces or non-ASCII characters" and probably the space is worst than ampersand. I personally would prefer to reinstall the program in a normalized path..
Anyway i think you can modify the portableshell.bat to include your malefical path as follow 

  set _TEST="c:\path\dir & test"

  set PATH=%_TEST%;%drivep%\perl\site\bin;%drivep%\perl\bin;%drivep%\c
+\bin;%PATH%

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then you can use it as you wish, after launching the batch: 
c:\strawberry>set
...
Path="c:\ulisse\dir & test";C:\ulisse\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\ulis
+se\strawberry\perl\bin;

...

_TEST="c:\path\dir & test"



c:\strawberry>cd %_TEST%

c:\path\dir & test>perl -e "print $ENV{PATH}"
c:\path\dir & test;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;
+C:\strawberry\c\bin; .....

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UPDATE: ahh.. you can also use junction (from sysinternals) as mentioned in the thread Installing CPAN on a Windows system or native command to achieve the same result: see here

HtH

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In reply to Re: [OT] Invoking Perl via batchfile: ampersand in PATH by Discipulus
in thread [OT] Invoking Perl via batchfile: ampersand in PATH [Solved] by Athanasius

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