correct quoting for cmd exe for multiple arguments

Question

I want to call  cmd  c  C  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 9 0 Common7 IDE devenv com  mysolution sln  build  release win32    Unfortunately this does not work  because I get the error   C  Program  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file   As I understand  I need quoting for the spaces and quotes for the    but I am only allowed to use the quotes once   Any ideas how to quote this command line call correctly

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Note the    at the beginning and at the end   Run a program and pass a Long Filename  cmd  c write exe  c  sample documents sample txt      Spaces in Program Path  cmd  c   c  Program Files Microsoft Office Office Winword exe       Spaces in Program Path   parameters  cmd  c   c  Program Files demo cmd   Parameter1 Param2     Spaces in Program Path   parameters with spaces  cmd  k   c  batch files demo cmd   Parameter 1 with space   Parameter2 with space       Launch Demo1 and then Launch Demo2  cmd  c   c  Program Files demo1 cmd   amp   c  Program Files demo2 cmd     CMD exe  Command Shell

User · Answer

Spaces are used for separating Arguments  In your case C  Program becomes argument  If your file path contains spaces then add Double quotation marks  Then cmd will recognize it as single argument

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Spaces are horrible in filenames or directory names   The correct syntax for this is to include every directory name that includes spaces  in double quotes  cmd  c C   Program Files   Microsoft Visual Studio 9 0  Common7 IDE devenv com  mysolution sln  build  release win32

[cmd] correct quoting for cmd.exe for multiple arguments

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