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I would like to call a jar file from a windows batch file. One requirement is to be able to pass all the batch file arguments as-is to the jar file invocation. For example,

Required Command line:

foo.bat --flag1=x --flag2=y --flag3=z

The batch file foo.bat should invoke foo.jar like follows:

java -jar foo.jar --flag1=x --flag2=y --flag3=z

How do I make the batch file do this?
I can do some batch variable magic with % to do this, but is there a simpler way to do this?

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Does 

java -jar foo.jar %*

meet your needs? It should add all parameters from the batch execution to your application call within the batch file.

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This does not preserve the quotations. :'(
I think I found a solution that works with parameters in quotations: serverfault.com/a/22541
This worked perfectly for me on Windows 10 1903, including preserving double-quotes around arguments.
@Sam "This" being the original answer, or Speedstone's link?
@Erhannis For me, it is the original answer. It kept the quotation marks where they belonged. :)

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