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I am trying to write a bat file to copy some files into a new directory (which exists).

Here is my command:

copy ".\050-9800-JJJ-DSC-BAW-MEE-00019-01*.pdf" "T:\201201.00 TCO - Tengiz, Kazakhstan\12.0-Submittals\100% IFC\DocsForVoid"

Notice that the destination path has a directory name that contains "%". When I see the output in powershell I get the error that the system cannot find the path specified. The path echoed in the command does not contain the "%" character . . . please note that I did not name this directory, and it may be problematic to rename it. Is there any way to get this to work?

Here is powershell output (sample):

T:\201201.00 TCO - Tengiz, Kazakhstan\08.6-Document Control\CW985786 Documents to be Uploaded to POL\015-C041-ITM-TRN-BA
W-FGP-00159>copy ".\050-9800-JJJ-DSC-BAW-MEE-00019-01*.pdf" "T:\201201.00 TCO - Tengiz, Kazakhstan\12.0-Submittals\100 I
FC\DocsForVoid"
.\050-9800-JJJ-DSC-BAW-MEE-00019-01_H04.pdf
The system cannot find the path specified.
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  • What version of powershell? I can't reproduce the issue.
    – EBGreen
    May 4, 2015 at 17:25
  • Not sure . . . is there a way to get powershell to tell me what version it is?
    – Paul Gibson
    May 4, 2015 at 17:43
  • $host.Version at the command line
    – EBGreen
    May 4, 2015 at 17:57
  • That error message looks more like cmd.exe than PowerShell.
    – dangph
    May 5, 2015 at 7:27
  • @EBGreen 2.0.-1.-1 (Major, Minor, Build, Revision) . . . I've not seen -1 before like that.
    – Paul Gibson
    May 5, 2015 at 15:08

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Try putting two && instead of one. This is will escape the special character.

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