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Thank you very much!<br />
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We found that in &nbsp;one of our searched, but didn't work., &nbsp;Seeing your example we were missing the quotes. &nbsp;We just finish testing and &nbsp;it gave us the short name &nbsp;of all the path we need &nbsp;to work with!<br />
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Thanx!
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Thank you very much!

We found that in  one of our searched, but didn't work.,  Seeing your example we were missing the quotes.  We just finish testing and  it gave us the short name  of all the path we need  to work with!

Thanx!

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You're welcome! Btw, quotes are needed only when there are spaces in the folder or file name, such as the space in <b>Program Files</b>. They're not needed if there are no spaces in the folder/file name. For example, this works fine without the quotes:<br />
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shortname.bat c:\Windows\PolicyDefinitio<wbr />ns\<br />
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Anyway, I'm glad that works for you! Regards, Joe
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You're welcome! Btw, quotes are needed only when there are spaces in the folder or file name, such as the space in Program Files. They're not needed if there are no spaces in the folder/file name. For example, this works fine without the quotes:

shortname.bat c:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\

Anyway, I'm glad that works for you! Regards, Joe

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And if you don't want another BAT file, you can do the following at a command prompt:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-42219256-1">for %F in (&quot;c:\longpathname\longfilename.txt&quot;) do @echo %~sF</code></pre>
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And if you don't want another BAT file, you can do the following at a command prompt:



for %F in ("c:\longpathname\longfilename.txt") do @echo %~sF

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Hi,<br />
<br />
We are trying to take a regular path and convert it to &quot;short name&quot;. &nbsp;For example:<br />
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The normal path: &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
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<b>C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\avast\</b>
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Convert &nbsp;it to:<br />
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<b>C:\PROGRA~1\AVASTS~1\avast<wbr />\</b>
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We understand fir /x returns the short name of a folder or file, but &nbsp;we are &nbsp;trying &nbsp;to convert specific path.<br />
<br />
How can we go about this?<br />
(we use Windows 10)
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Hi,

We are trying to take a regular path and convert it to "short name".  For example:

The normal path:    

C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\avast\

Convert  it to:

C:\PROGRA~1\AVASTS~1\avast\

We understand fir /x returns the short name of a folder or file, but  we are  trying  to convert specific path.

How can we go about this?
(we use Windows 10)

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