Getting Short-Filename of Command-Line Argument from Batch-File

Answer 1

I don't have a problem executing your batch. Hope someone can help you soon. But while you are at it, here's an alternative done with Vbscript, which i think you should get familiar with.

Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
strFile = objArgs(0)
WScript.Echo CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetFile(strFile).ShortName

on the command line (or your batch), call it like this

C:\test>cscript //nologo getshortname.vbs "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\shortcut.lnk"
shortcut.lnk

Answer 2

Well I just confirmed it. I tested the script with CMD.EXE from XP SP1, SP2, and SP3 as well as an SP2 VM installation. It gave the aforementioned erroneous results with the SP1 version, but worked correctly in the SP2 and SP3 versions. So it is indeed a bug that was fixed. For anyone else who runs into this, the CMD.EXE file from SP2+ can be dropped into an SP1 installation without issue (assuming that an update is not feasible).