How do I use spaces in the Command Prompt

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How can I use spaces in the Windows Command Line   cmd  C C  Program Files  x86  WinRar Rar exe a D  Hello 2 File rar D  Hello 2

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You should try using quotes   cmd  C  C  Program Files  x86  WinRar Rar exe  a  D  Hello 2 File rar   D  Hello 2

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Single quotation marks won t do in that case  You have to add quotation marks around each path and also enclose the whole command in quotation marks   cmd  C   C  Program Files  x86  WinRar Rar exe  a  D  Hello 2 File rar   D  Hello 2

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I prefer to enclose the command in    which is valid batch which makes it a bit easier to read   cmd  C   C  Program Files  x86  WinRar Rar exe  a  D  Hello 2 File rar   D  Hello 2

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set  CMD C  Program Files  x86  PDFtk bin pdftk  echo cmd  K    CMD    D  output trimmed pdf  start cmd  K    CMD    D  output trimmed pdf    this worked for me in a batch file

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If double quotes do not solve the issue then try e g   dir  X  1 c     to get a list of alternative file or directory names  Example output   11 09 2014 12 54 AM             8 065  DEFAUL 1 XML Default Desktop Policy xml 06 12 2014  03 49 PM     lt DIR gt           PROGRA 1     Program Files  10 12 2014  12 46 AM     lt DIR gt           PROGRA 2     Program Files  x86    Now use the short 8 character file or folder name in the 5th column  e g  PROGRA 1 or DEFAUL 1 XML  in your commands  For instance   set JAVA HOME c  PROGRA 1 Java jdk1 6 0 45

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Spaces in the Commend Prompt  in a VBA Shell command code line   I had a very similar problem which ended up being a space in the command prompt when automating via VBA to get the contents from the command window into a text file  This Thread was one of many I caught along the way that didn   t quite get me the solution   So this may help others with a similar problem  Since the syntax with quotes is always difficult to get right   I think showing some specific examples is always useful   The additional problem you get using the command prompt in VBA via the Shell thing  is that the code line often won   t error when something goes wrong  in fact a blink of the black commend window misleads into thinking something was done    As example    say I have a Folder  with a text file in it like at  C  Alans Folder test1 txt     https   imgur com FELSdB6       The space there in the folder name gives the problem   Something like this would work  assuming the Folder  AlansFolder  exists  Sub ShellBlackCommandPromptWindowAutomatingCopyingWindowContent    Shell  cmd exe  c   ipconfig  all  gt  C  AlansFolder test1 txt    End Sub   This won   t work   It won   t error    Sub ShellBlackCommandPromptWindowAutomatingCopyingWindowContent    Shell  cmd exe  c   ipconfig  all  gt  C  Alans Folder test1 txt    End Sub   Including quote pairs around the path  will make it work  Sub ShellBlackCommandPromptWindowAutomatingCopyingWindowContent    Shell  cmd exe  c   ipconfig  all  gt    C  Alans Folder test1 txt      End Sub     By the way  if the text file does not exist  then it will be made     With the benefit of hindsight  we can see that my solution does tie up approximately with some already given    Converting that  code line to a manual given command we would have   ipconfig  all  gt   C  Alans Folder test1 txt    That seems to work  This works also  ipconfig  all  gt  C  AlansFolder test1 txt   This doesn   t  ipconfig  all  gt  C  Alans Folder test1 txt   This final form also works and ties up with the solution from sacra         You have to add quotation marks around each path and also enclose the whole command in quotation marks            cmd exe  c  ipconfig  all  gt   C  Alans Folder test1 txt

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It can solve this problem by cd command  this command understand spaces without double quotes and you can call any program this way for example    C  Windows system32 cd c  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 2 bin  c  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 2 bin mongo now command prompt call mongo exe

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I just figured out that for a case where the path involves the use of white space characters  for example   when I need to access the app xyz which location is    C  Program Files ab cd xyz exe   To run this from windows cmd prompt  you need to use   C   Program Files   ab cd  xyz exe   or   C  Program Files ab cd xyz exe

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Enclose the paths containing spaces with double quotes   cmd  C  C  Program Files  x86  WinRar Rar exe  a  D  Hello 2 File rar   D  Hello 2

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Just add Quotation Mark   Example  C  Users User Name   Hope it got Solved

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Try to provide complex pathnames in double-quotes  and include file extensions at the end for files    For files   call  C  example file exe    For Directory   cd  C  Users User Name New Folder    CMD interprets text with double quotes   xyz   as one string and text within single quotes   xyz   as a command  For example      FOR   A in   dir  b  s   txt   do   command        FOR   A in   dir  b  s   txt   do  echo    A     And one good thing  cmd is not  case sensitive like bash  So  New fiLE txt  and  new file TXT  is alike to it     Note  The   A variables in above case is case-sensitive    A not equal to   a

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