speedi Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I have tried and tried, but I can not get this runwait command line to work.. I always have difficulty with quoted command lines... PLEASE HELP! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! Jim $thedir = "c:\testdir" runwait("C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\XCOPY.EXE" & chr(34) & @MyDocumentsDir & CHR(34) & ' ' & chr(34) & $thedir & chr(34) & ' /c/s/a/exclude:\exclude.txt >c:\backup.txt') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 How about this? runwait('C:\Windows\System32\XCOPY.EXE "' & @MyDocumentsDir & '" "' & $thedir & '" /c/s/a/exclude:exclude.txt >c:backup.txt') My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedi Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 Thanks for your help but that did not work.. I did this - highlight the whole line (the part inside the parentheses) in Scite and then hit ALT-D which will give you a consolewrite line containing the data and the variables, so you can see exactly how it is going to look in the command line. Then I execute the lines and look at the console write command in the output box.. the part after "=" I copied that part and pasted into a dos window to try it... It works in the dos window, but not in autoit script.. Here is the entire script with the line you gave me. Thanks for taking the time to look at this... $thedir = "c:testdir" runwait('C:\Windows\System32\XCOPY.EXE "' & @MyDocumentsDir & '" "' & $thedir & '" /c/s/a/exclude:exclude.txt >c:backup.txt') ConsoleWrite('@@ Debug(' & @ScriptLineNumber & ') : ''C:\Windows\System32\XCOPY.EXE "'' & @MyDocumentsDir & ''" "'' & $thedir & ''" /c/s/a/exclude:exclude.txt >c:backup.txt'' = ' & 'C:\Windows\System32\XCOPY.EXE "' & @MyDocumentsDir & '" "' & $thedir & '" /c/s/a/exclude:exclude.txt >c:backup.txt' & @crlf & '>Error code: ' & @error & @crlf) ;### Debug Console Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I think the Debug line is not very reliable in this situation. It adds another set of quotes. I copy the whole text to a ConsoleWrite statement: $thedir = "c:\testdir" ConsoleWrite('C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\XCOPY.EXE "' & @MyDocumentsDir & '" "' & $thedir & '" /c/s/a/exclude:\exclude.txt >c:\backup.txt' & @CRLF) My result looks like this: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\XCOPY.EXE "C:\Users\xy\Documents" "c:\testdir" /c/s/a/exclude:\exclude.txt >c:\backup.txt My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedi Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 The debug line did produce the same result you had, but your method looks to be better... this is it.. C:\Windows\System32\XCOPY.EXE "C:Documents and SettingsJim MihalskiMy Documents" "c:testdir" /c/s/a/exclude:exclude.txt >c:backup.txt The problem is when that command is copied and pasted to a DOS window, the copy works just fine... BUT it does not work in the script.... nothing is copied. Can you try it in autoit? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedi Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 just figured out why it was not working.. I should have been using: runwait(@ComSpec & " /c " & etc. etc. Now it works in the script... Thanks so much for your help.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Glad you got the problem solved My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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