This looks an issue of ant-plugin (or might be that of Jenkins core?)
Removed copyartifact from component/s.

Hi rberg,

I recently took over manintainership of the Ant Plugin and got 1.3 released earlier this week. It should fix your issue. Please, could you confirm so that I can close this ticket?

Thanks,
Armando

it still fails after installing Ant Plugin 1.3

[Batch.BatchControl.Deploy] $ cmd.exe /C "ant.bat -file AppDeploy.xml -DDEPLOY_ENV=IST '"-DTARGET_BUILD=<SpecificBuildSelector plugin=""copyartifact@1.38""> <buildNumber>65</buildNumber></SpecificBuildSelector>"' do_all -Djenkins.PREVJOBNAME=Batch.BatchControl -DSKIP_SERVICE_STEPS=true && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%" Buildfile: ..\AppDeploy.xml [echo] Beginning Build of ..\AppDeployv5.xml with Ant Version Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.6 compiled on June 29 2015... BUILD FAILED Target "<buildNumber>65</buildNumber></SpecificBuildSelector> do_all -Djenkins.PREVJOBNAME Batch.BatchControl -DSKIP_SERVICE_STEPS true" does not exist in the project "Web_Bld".

I'm hitting this on 1.4 as well:

```
[BoolParser] $ cmd.exe /C '""C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\tools\hudson.tasks.Ant_AntInstallation\Ant\bin\ant.bat"' -file build.xml -DGERRIT_BRANCH=develop -DGERRIT_PATCHSET_REVISION=65bed5205cb0ff069516de15ba02142bc1782e8a -DGERRIT_HOST=centos237.ermscorp.local -DGERRIT_CHANGE_OWNER_EMAIL=stephen.baker@example.com '"-DGERRIT_EVENT_ACCOUNT_NAME=Stephen Baker"' -DGERRIT_CHANGE_URL=http://centos237.ermscorp.local:8080/1242 -DGERRIT_PATCHSET_UPLOADER_EMAIL=stephen.baker@example.com -DGERRIT_EVENT_TYPE=patchset-created -DGERRIT_PROJECT=erms -DGERRIT_CHANGE_NUMBER=1242 -DGERRIT_SCHEME=ssh '"-DGERRIT_PATCHSET_UPLOADER=\""Stephen Baker\"" <stephen.baker@example.com>"' -DGERRIT_PORT=29418 -DGERRIT_REFSPEC=refs/changes/42/1242/2 '"-DGERRIT_PATCHSET_UPLOADER_NAME=Stephen Baker"' '"-DGERRIT_CHANGE_OWNER=\""Stephen Baker\"" <stephen.baker@example.com>"' -DGERRIT_CHANGE_COMMIT_MESSAGE=RmlsdGVyIHRoZSBtZW51IG9uIHRoZSBzZXJ2ZXIgc2lkZQoKQ2hhbmdlLUlkOiBJOTQ0OGFiM2RkMTUxYWVlMzhiODE0OTE5M2JlODNkZjBkMWViNDE3MQo="" '"-DGERRIT_NAME=Centos237 Gerrit Server"' -DGERRIT_TOPIC="" '"-DGERRIT_CHANGE_SUBJECT=Filter the menu on the server side"' '"-DGERRIT_EVENT_ACCOUNT=\""Stephen Baker\"" <stephen.baker@example.com>"' -DGERRIT_CHANGE_ID=I9448ab3dd151aee38b8149193be83df0d1eb4171 -DGERRIT_EVENT_HASH=-386756447 -DGERRIT_VERSION=2.11.5 -DGERRIT_EVENT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL=stephen.baker@example.com -DGERRIT_PATCHSET_NUMBER=2 '"-DGERRIT_CHANGE_OWNER_NAME=Stephen Baker"' jar && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"
```

resulting in:
```
Target "Baker"" <stephen.baker@example.com>" does not exist in the project "BoolParser".
```

Hi there,

I am facing the same issue with 1.4.
armfergom: Can you provide a schedule, when the issue might be solved?

If I can help with the fix, please contact me.
I just don't have enough understanding of the code, and how to escape the command correctly, to start implementing a fix.

sradi I'll try to get this done by the end of next week. Thanks and sorry for the delay.

Thanks for the info!
This issue seems to have the same cause, as JENKINS-37827.

If it helps, here are the results of my little research:

• I created a little job, that takes a string parameter and executes a simple ant build.
  Build parameter: string "with" double quotes
  On Jenkins 1.587 with ant plugin 1.2 I see this in the console output:
  cmd.exe /C '"ant.bat "-Denv=string ""with"" double quotes" foo && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"'
  ..works fine
  On Jenkins 2.32.1 with ant plugin 1.4 I see:
  cmd.exe /C "ant.bat '"-Denv=string ""with"" double quotes"' foo && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"
  ... works fine, as well.

• Now I am adding backslashes, like e.g. the GitHub Pullrequest Builder Plugin does, in the environment variables injected into the job.
  Build parameter: string \"with\" double quotes
  On Jenkins 1.587 with ant plugin 1.2 I see this in the console output:
  cmd.exe /C '"ant.bat "-Denv=string \""with\"" double quotes" foo && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"'
  ..works fine
  On Jenkins 2.32.1 with ant plugin 1.4 I see:
  cmd.exe /C "ant.bat '"-Denv=string \""with\"" double quotes"' foo && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"
  ... works fine, as well.

• Now I am adding a whitespace in between the double quotes:
  Build parameter: string \"with double\" quotes
  On Jenkins 1.587 with ant plugin 1.2 I see this in the console output:
  cmd.exe /C '"ant.bat "-Denv=string \""with double\"" quotes" foo && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"'
  ..BUILD FAILED: Target "double"" quotes" does not exist in the project "foo".
  On Jenkins 2.32.1 with ant plugin 1.4 I see:
  cmd.exe /C "ant.bat '"-Denv=string \""with double\"" quotes"' foo && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%"
  ...BUILD FAILED: Target "double"" quotes" does not exist in the project "foo".

Conclusion: The problem occurs, if there are whitespaces in between the double quotes,

Hi,

we are urgently waiting for this bugfix. Is there any news about the timeline?
If I can help, please contact me.

Thanks!
Stefan

I am seeing this issue with the GitHub Pull Request Builder Plugin, not with Gerrit. The cause seems to be the same.

Ghprb receives JSON from GitHub. The plugin provides information from this JSON object as Build parameters, e.g.

"comment": {
...
 },
    "created_at": "2017-01-24T15:04:28Z",
    "updated_at": "2017-01-24T15:04:28Z",
    "body": "retrigger build\r\nwith \"line breaks and\" double quotes"
  },
...

The Ghprb plugin escapes double quotes (""" -> "\""):
https://github.com/janinko/ghprb/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/ghprb/GhprbTrigger.java#L366

After modifying the line
return text.replace("\n", "\\n").replace("\r", "\\r").replace("\"", "\\\"");
to
return text.replace("\n", "\\n").replace("\r", "
r");
everythings works fine!!!

Maybe, this problem should be solved in Ghprb and Gerrit plugin, instead of the Ant plugin?!?
How should the ant plugin be able to decide, if \" is an escaped double quote or a backslash and a double qoute?

I could only test on windows. Probably the situation is different on unix.