Knife-windows Plugin Bootstrap Blowing Up Finding "()" in System Path

• Able to reproduce by setting PATH=%PATH%:%SYSTEMROOT%\My Stuff (x64)\VMWare before the SSH bootstrap
• Able to fix by setting PATH=%PATH%;%SYSTEMROOT%\"My Stuff (x64)"\VMWare after the first failure, deleting C:\chef and C:\opscode, and rerunning the bootstrap

• Error Output

The error looked like the following

"Rendering 'C:\Users\Opscode\AppData\Local\Temp\bootstrap-42826-1331164944.bat'
chunk 5" ad 412 bytes

\VMWare was unexpected at this time.

C:\Users\Opscode>mkdir C:\chef

C:\Users\Users\Opscode>(
echo.url = WScript.Arguments.Named("url")
echo.path = WScript.Arguments.Named("path")
echo.Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
echo.Set wshShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
echo.Set objUserVariables = wshShell.Environment("USER")
echo.
echo.'http proxy is optional
echo.'attempt to read from HTTP_PROXY env var first
echo.On Error Resume Next
echo.
echo.If NOT (objUserVariables("HTTP_PROXY") = "") Then
echo.objXMLHTTP.setProxy 2, objUserVariables("HTTP_PROXY")
echo.
echo.'fall back to named arg
echo.ElseIf NOT (WScript.Arguments.Named("proxy") = "") Then
echo.objXMLHTTP.setProxy 2, WScript.Arguments.Named("proxy")
echo.End If
echo.

ef/install.msi /path:C:\ /qb /i C:\Users\Opscode\AppData\Local\Temp\chef-client-

C:\Users\Opscode>

sean@Seans-MacBook-Pro ~/src/ocs/sean-horn-opscode [master>] $

• So, the problem appears to be happening between the call to render_template from create_bootstrap_bat_command and the call to run_command(bootstrap_command).run from bootstrap

All of these methods are in https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap_windows_base.rb.

render_template appears to complete successfully because the BAT file is produced on the bootstrapping node