TeamCity - passing parameter values with whitespace to command line

Question

I'm passing some TeamCity parameters to the command line build step. The problem comes when the parameter value contains spaces, e.g.:

%env.TEAMCITY_BUILDCONF_NAME%  ---> My TC Project

Is there a way to replace white spaces with some other character, for example underscore?

%env.TEAMCITY_BUILDCONF_NAME%  ---> My_TC_Project

Answer 1

You can typically keep using the white spaces if you wrap the parameter in double quotes:

%program.files.dir% => C:\Program Files (x86)

Executable: dir

Parameters: "%program.files.dir%"

Answer 2

I don't know how to replace spaces with underscore, but I had an issue with whitespaces. In a TeamCity build step, I was trying to run an sqlcmd as Executable with Parameters

-S %sql_server% -U %sql_username% -P %sql_password% 
-i "custom_script.sql" -d "%custom_db%"
-v DealerName="%DealerName%"

where DealerName was "Great Dealer Ltd" but it didn't work with white spaces, even with double quotes.

It fixed the issue by setting it as a Custom Script like

sqlcmd -S %sql_server% -U %sql_username% -P %sql_password% 
-i "custom_script.sql"  -d "%custom_db%"
-v DealerName="%DealerName%"

and (thanks to my boss suggestion) it worked like charm.

Even if is not the precise answer to your question, it could be useful for similar issues.