Glenn Posts: 99 18/01/2016	Glenn Posts: 99 The attached shows an "echo ." command setup. Sadly, what gets echoed is the path to the current directory. I got excited when I discovered that "echo ^." didn't have that problem, but in non-CMD.exe programs, ^ just gets passed through. So the question is, is there a SyMenu way to escape a "." so that it can get passed through to a program, instead of being modified from "." to the current directory path on the way? In other words, not all "." are paths, or path prefixes. Sometimes, they are just a parameter to a command. edited by Glenn on 18/01/2016 Attachments: ss_20160116_225833.png
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274 19/01/2016	Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274 What if I don't resolve the . (dot) when it is escape in the same way the cmd requires? So if you write ^. I will leave the dot unresolved removing the ^. If you need to leave the ^ character to escape the . even in the final command you can escape the escape character in this way ^^. So the escaping chain will be SyMenu ^^. -> ^. The final command ^. -> .
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Glenn Posts: 99 22/01/2016	Glenn Posts: 99 It occurred to me just a few moments ago, that this same technique might be appropriate to apply to #:\ ??? ^#:\ would have ^ removed, but be passed without expanding to the portable drive letter. I haven't played much with #:\ and do not know if replacement happens only with the 3-letter sequence, which is much more unlikely to occur than a single ".", and I don't know of any programs that take "#:\" as a command line parameter, so this one is likely less important. But if the replacement only depends on the #, then it could be critical to some applications.
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274 23/01/2016	Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274 I think that an the escape character ^ could be considered only if used along with the dot char also because writing, for example, ^# is senseless as you stated. So we can partially intend the ^ as an escape char. In the future we can extend its value as escaper if useful. To summarize the replacement rules are: .\ becomes D:\SyMenu\ProgramFiles\ (this is only an example of a possible resolution) ^.\ becomes .\ ^^.\ becomes ^.\
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