cupid062985
17th July 2012 09:14 UTC

InstallDir with Spaces
Hi Guys,

I need some help here.

I try to install an exe file with the following line:

ExecWait "$\"$TEMP\setup.exe$\" /v$\" /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR=$\"C:\Program Files\Folder$\""

but it failed because of the Space.

I was wondering why for MSI packages it work.

ExecWait "msiexec /i $\"$TEMP\setup.msi$\" /quiet /passive /norestart INSTALLDIR=$\"C:\Program Files\Folder$\""

Please help me. I need some light.

Thanks a lot in advance.

MSG
17th July 2012 10:20 UTC

You have one too many quotes in your command:
ExecWait "$\"$TEMP\setup.exe$\" /v$\" /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR=$\"C:\Program Files\Folder$\""
Should be
ExecWait "$\"$TEMP\setup.exe$\" /v /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR=$\"C:\Program Files\Folder$\""

But next time, please use ` or ' quotes to prevent trouble like this. It also makes your code much more readable:

ExecWait `"$TEMP\setup.exe" /v /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Folder"`

cupid062985
17th July 2012 10:43 UTC

I want to achieve this command line:

setup.exe /v" /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Folder"

I believe it's not the quotation because if I manually input the following command:

setup.exe /v" /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR="C:\Test"

it will work. I believe $\" is the way of escaping ".

It must have something to do with the space i think... because I coded it the way like the one I posted. Anyways I will try your suggestion.

Thanks a lot... :)

Afrow UK
17th July 2012 10:47 UTC

As MSG said above, use ' or `:

ExecWait `"$PLUGINSDIR\setup.exe" /v" /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Folder"`

Also don't use relative paths.

Stu

MSG
17th July 2012 11:08 UTC

Originally posted by cupid062985
I believe it's not the quotation because if I manually input the following command:

setup.exe /v" /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR="C:\Test"

it will work.

I think that's a very scary command... I'm not sure how those parameters will be passed to setup.exe. My guess would be that setup recieves only two parameters, namely `/v" /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR="` as the first parameter and `C:\Test"` as the second. This would mean that with a space in the path, it would receive something like `/v" /norestart /qb INSTALLDIR="` as the first parameter, `C:\Program` as the second, and `Files\Folder"` as the third. If that's the case, then it depends entirely on how setup.exe parses its own parameters...

Is there a way to prevent the /v" parameter?

cupid062985
17th July 2012 11:40 UTC

@MSG

the sample is just in the command line. thus it is a relative path...

@Afrow

I already tried the one suggested but it only works on InstallDir with no space. I even changed /v" to /v still the same...

:(