Elevated bat file with & or ^ in name dies

[aGerman]

You could open a cmd window.
E.g. "test1&test2&cmd .bat" (note the space next to cmd) would display

Der Befehl "G:\Documents\test1" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.
Der Befehl "test2" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Windows\system32>

Because of the missing /k any following commands (like echo) would be ignored and show the same result.
Even if you would concatenate further commands via & operator it would stop with executing cmd.

Regards
aGerman

[penpen]

You can't have a / in a filename.

Ups i've forgotten that for just a second.

Because of the missing /k any following commands (like echo) would be ignored and show the same result.
Even if you would concatenate further commands via & operator it would stop with executing cmd.

In XP it is valid to use '-' instead of '/' for options, so how about a filename like "test & cmd -K echo awful.bat"?

penpen

[aGerman]

In XP it is valid to use '-' instead of '/' for options, so how about a filename like "test & cmd -K echo awful.bat"?

That slipped my mind. It still stops with cmd. Something like "test & cmd^ -K^ echo(awful.bat" wouldn't work either.

Regards
aGerman

[penpen]

OK. Thanks for testing (such a bug usage, in order to let the cmd window stay opended and let you read the error messages, would have been funny, or other funny things^^).

penpen