I'd never thought about it until seeing nicael's answer, but I kind of like "quoting the file".
test.bat
@echo off setlocal enableDelayedExpansion set argument1=!%1! echo %argument1%>test.txt
> file2.bat > > > @echo off > echo %~1
> file2.bat > > > @echo off > echo %~1
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