XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, rec.photo.digital   
   From: jj4public@outlook.com   
      
   On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 08:52:26 -0700, Oliver wrote:   
   > To clarify my quetion...   
   >   
   > I don't ask you to do my debugging, but I would like to know if I   
   > faithfully followed the suggestions, so here's the file after I followed   
   > what I thought were the suggestions (with the comments removed).   
   >   
   > Only one top-level directory is supposed to be created (which was how the   
   > original posted script worked - which was a fully working script).   
   >   
   > Did I follow your suggestions correctly or did I mess up in understanding?   
      
   You have a different problem.   
      
   A file system path should be double-quoted, in case the path has a space or   
   a special character in it. Otherwise, the command will see multiple   
   parameters instead of one.   
      
   e.g. a command line like this...   
      
   mkdir z:\my data\new category   
      
   That will never work as expected, since instead of 1 parameter, the command   
   will see 3 parameters:   
   1: z:\my   
   2: data\new   
   3: category   
      
   So, the path should be double-quoted like this.   
      
   mkdir "z:\my data\new category"   
      
   If variables are used as part of a file system path, after the variables are   
   expanded, it should end up double-quoted like above.   
      
   A path whose parts are separated double-quoted like below...   
      
   mkdir "z:\my data"\"new category"   
      
   That also work, but highly not recommended, since not all programs do proper   
   command line parsing. i.e. don't assume it will work for all programs.   
      
   Also... Below command line is not same as above.   
      
   mkdir "z:\my data"\ "new category"   
      
   Notice the space between the 2 double-quoted parts. That would have the same   
   problem as the first code above.   
      
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