Issue passing variables to batch file from start menu entry.

[cpaetz]

I did a quick Search but couldn't find anything on this issue. I'm setting up some batch files to automate some common admin tasks from the start menu in TC but while I'm testing I'm finding that passing the %t variable as a parameter to the batch file is not always working as expected. It seems to at random pass the source path instead... with some of these batch files this could be disastrous....

One of the Start Menu Items I set up is configured like this

Title: Take Ownership Recursively (Target Directory)
Command: %COMMANDER_PATH%\Tools\take ownership recursively.bat
Parameters: %t

The contents of the batch file is

icacls %1* /reset /t > C:\icalcs.log
C:\icalcs.log

Am I doing something wrong? or is this a known issue?

Thanks

[ghisler(Author)]

No, I'm not aware of this problem. How about using %T (uppercase) instead? You should probably put it in double quotes "%T". The lowercase one passes the DOS name to the program.