quotes within quotes 3

[brian32]

I want to run the following cacls command in vbscript:

cacls "C:\Program Files\My Program" /T /E /G "Authenticated Users":C

The objShell.Run command already uses quotes so how can I implement my command so that the two don't conflict? How can I put quotes withing quotes? Thanks.

 

[dm4ever]

Use two "" or Chr(34)
My preference is Chr(34).
For example:

"cacls " & Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\My Program" & Chr(34) & " /T /E /G " & Chr(34) & "Authenticated Users" & Chr(34) & ":C"

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dm4ever
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[brian32]

If I wanted to use this on a remote computer, the command would be:

cacls "\\RemoteComputer\C$\Program Files\My Program" /T /E /G "Authenticated Users":C

If the variable for the remote computer is strComputer, what would I need to do in order to accomodate the \\, and what would the final command look like?

 

[PHV]

objShell.Run "cacls ""\\" & strComputer & "\C$\Program Files\My Program"" /T /E /G ""Authenticated Users"":C"

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[EBGreen]

Coming from other script languages, this part of VBS annoyed me so much that I made a function to handle it:

objShell.Run "cacls " & qq(""\\" & strComputer & "\C$\Program Files\My Program") & " /T /E /G " & qq("Authenticated Users") & ":C"

Function qq(strIn)
qq = Chr(34) & strIn & Chr(34)
End Function

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