%O substitute selected filename w/o extension problem

[evanscott]

I am convinced that the %O parameter option results in truncation if the selected file name contains a space. For instance:

wunzip -d %N %O

comes out

wunzip -d "my zip file.zip" my

when I think it shou dcome out

wunzip -d "my zip file.zip" "my zip file"

Am I missing something or is this the way it works? More importantly, is this the way it is supposed to work?

[Vansumsen]

Found in TC Help > Configuration > Change buton bar > Parameters :
%O = places the current filename without extension into the command line.

[Sheepdog]

wunzip -d %N %O

comes out

wunzip -d "my zip file.zip" my

when I think it shou dcome out

wunzip -d "my zip file.zip" "my zip file"

Am I missing something or is this the way it works?

Try wunzip -d %N "%O" because of the spaces in the filename and it should work as you expect. ( I don't know why %N works fine without quotation marks)

sheepdog

[evanscott]

I would have sworn I had tried that but when I did try it it worked so I must not have tried it. Maybe I tried quoting both arguments and that broke it the other way around... what'a world! Thanks for the help!

[Sheepdog]

I would have sworn I had tried that but when I did try it it worked so I must not have tried it.

Sometimes it happens like this

Maybe I tried quoting both arguments and that broke it the other way around... what'a world!

I tried it again: If you use %N in quotation marks you only get the part to the first space. So it is at least inconsistent....

Thanks for the help!

You're welcome

sheepdog

[ghisler(Author)]

%N and %P%N are surrounded automatically by quotation marks, because they often stand alone as parameters. %O is usually needed to create new names, e.g. %O.bak, therefore it wouldn't be good to have "" placed automatically around it. Therefore you have to add the double quotes yourself.

[Sheepdog]

%N and %P%N are surrounded automatically by quotation marks, because they often stand alone as parameters. %O is usually needed to create new names, e.g. %O.bak, therefore it wouldn't be good to have "" placed automatically around it. Therefore you have to add the double quotes yourself.

Thanks for the quick reply. Sounds logical to me. But I think it's worth mentioning in the tutorial. I'll give Clo a hint.

sheepdog