Spaces cause split in path with PowerShell

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I m having an issue with powershell when invoking an exe at a path containing spaces   PS C  Windows Services gt  invoke-expression  C  Windows Services MyService exe      The term  C  Windows  is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet  function  script file  or operable program  Check the spelling of the name  or if a path was included  verify that the path is correct and try again    It seems to be splitting on the space between  Windows  and  Services   Any idea how to get around this problem

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Using Powershell on Windows10 in 2018  what worked for me was simply to replace double quotes   by simple quotes    Adding the backtick before the space  as suggested in an answer  broke the path

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amp  C  Windows Services MyService exe     Invoke-Expression   via https   www vistax64 com powershell 52905-invoke-expression-exe-has-spaces-its-path html

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For any file path with space  simply put them in double quotations will work in Windows Powershell  For example  if you want to go to Program Files directory  instead of use  PS C   gt  cd Program Files   which will induce error   simply use the following will solve the problem   PS C   gt  cd  Program Files

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Just put   yourpathtofile folder   PowerShell does not count spaces  to tell PowerShell to consider the whole path including spaces  add your path in between     amp

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This worked for me    scanresults   Invoke-Expression   amp   C  Program Files  x86  Nmap nmap exe  -vv -sn 192 168 1 1-150 --open

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Simply put the path in double quotes in front of cd  Like this   cd  quot C  Users MyComputer Documents Visual Studio 2019 Projects quot

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Try this  simple and without much change   invoke-expression   C  Windows Services MyService exe    using single quotations at the beginning and end of the path

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Can use the   dot operator      C  Users user AppData Local Programs Microsoft VS Code bin code cmd    or the Start-Process command  Start-Process -PSPath  C  Users user AppData Local Programs Microsoft VS Code bin code cmd    or using ProcessStartInfo and Process   ProcessInfo   New-Object -TypeName System Diagnostics ProcessStartInfo  ProcessInfo FileName    C  WINDOWS System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0 powershell exe  if  Admin    ProcessInfo Verb    runas     ProcessInfo UseShellExecute    false   CommandParameters    -noexit -noprofile -command Set-Location -LiteralPath c     host ui RawUI WindowTitle       0   PS    Set-PSReadlineOption -HistorySaveStyle SaveNothing   -f  Cred UserName  ProcessInfo Arguments    CommandParameters  ProcessInfo Domain     Cred UserName -split       0   ProcessInfo UserName     Cred UserName -split       1   ProcessInfo Password    Cred Password   ProcessObject   New-Object -TypeName System Diagnostics Process  ProcessObject StartInfo    ProcessInfo  ProcessObject Start     Out-Null

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Please use this simple one liner   Invoke-Expression  C   Program Files  x86  Microsoft Office root Office16  EXCEL EXE

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enter the root C drive by entering command   C    type cd and then press Tab key  it will toggle through all available locations and press enter when you have reached the desired one   cd  press tab

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Not sure if someone still needs it    I needed to invoke msbuild in powershell and following worked fine    MSBuild      Env ProgramFiles x86   Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Professional MSBuild 15 0 Bin MSBuild exe    amp   MSBuild  PathToSolution  p OutDir  OutDirVar  t Rebuild  p Configuration Release

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Would this do what you want     amp   C  Windows Services MyService exe    Use  amp   the call operator  to invoke commands whose names or paths are stored in quoted strings and or are referenced via variables  as in the accepted answer  Invoke-Expression is not only the wrong tool to use in this particular case  it should generally be avoided

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There s a hack I ve used since the Invoke-Expression works fine for me   You could set the current location to the path with spaces  invoke the expression  get back to your previous location and continue    currLocation   Get-Location Set-Location    C  Windows Services   Invoke-Expression    MyService exe  Set-Location  currLocation   This will only work if the exe doesn t have any spaces in its name   Hope this helps

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You can escape the space by using single quotations and a backtick before the space    path    C  Windows Services MyService exe   path -replace           invoke-expression  path

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