I am trying to get a batch file to work. Whenever I attempt to run a .bat the command line returns '■m' is not recognized... error, where "m" is the first letter of the file. For example:
md c:\testsource
md c:\testbackup
Returns
C:>"C:\Users\Michael\Dropbox\Documents\Research\Media\Method Guide\Program\test .bat"
C:>■m '■m' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Things I have tried:
Thanks
In addition to the approved answer I would add the case where is a PowerShell command the one that creates the file... PowerShell comes by default with the UTF-16 encoding.
To solve your problem then, force the file encoding lie this: | out-file foo.txt -encoding utf8
Answer based on this other answer.
What text editor are you writing this in? It seems like your text editor may save the file as UTF-16 encoded text, which cmd.exe
can't handle. Try setting the "coding"/"file encoding" to "ANSI" when saving the file.
This results in the first byte being a byte-order-mark (telling other editors how to process the file), and cmd.exe
can't deal with this.
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