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How can I run this as a command file in PDQ deploy?

Bruce Garlock

January 06, 2014 22:12

I have the following command which works fine via the command line, but won't work with PDQ deploy. I think it's more of a escaping special characters issue so that PDQ deploy can run it, or maybe I should use something like 'psexec' to do this. I just want to run this from the command line:

for /d  %d  in ("c:\users\*") do rd /s/q "%d\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache"

Comments

3 comments

Marcel Lipovsky
January 07, 2014 02:40

Put the command in to a batch file and deploy that.

I am not sure if PDQ Deploy can handle variable expansion.

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Shane Corellian
January 07, 2014 18:17
You nailed it, Bruce. You need to escape the special characters (in this case %) like you would in a batch file. PDQ Deploy (2.3 and later) processes Command Steps into batch files. Try this command:
```
for /d  %%d  in ("c:\users\*") do rd /s/q "%%d\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache"
```
There are a few gotchas running batch files vs. commands in cmd.exe. Here is a great cheat sheet for escaping special characters in batch files.
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Bruce Garlock
January 07, 2014 20:00

Nice! It worked. Many thanks,

Bruce

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