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Blank Spaces in cmd
Name: Eoin Date: March 16, 2006 at 07:08:23 Pacific OS: WinXp CPU/Ram: 512 Product: Dell
Comment:
I want to call a file path in cmd.exe that contains blank spaces C:\Program Files\MyTxtFiles\*.txt
Surrounding this path in quotation marks does not work, I think because of *.txt I need the path to be as above. Any ideas how I can get over this?
Name: IVO Date: March 16, 2006 at 07:27:10 Pacific
Reply:
What are you trying to achieve?
Cmd.exe is the NT command interpreter/processor, i.e. it "executes" commands typed at prompt. Commands are stored in files, but paths are not executable, so what you type has no meaning at all.
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Response Number 2
Name: Eoin Date: March 16, 2006 at 07:44:43 Pacific
Reply:
I have a batch file in which %1 is determined by the path typed in cmd following the call to the batch file
MyBat "C:\Program Files\MyTxtFiles\*.txt" is what I type in cmd.exe but this results in a "system cannot find the specified files" error. Any suggestions?
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Response Number 3
Name: IVO Date: March 16, 2006 at 08:31:19 Pacific
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If so, you have to type as the parameter for the batch the short format of the path, i.e the old 8.3 name that can be obtained typing Dir /X. As rule it is made up from the first six characters followed by ~n e.g. Program Files becomes Progra~1 and so on.
The batch if not specifically coded does not recognize names embraced by "".
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Response Number 4
Name: Eoin Date: March 16, 2006 at 11:12:00 Pacific
Summary: My C program is a 4x4 matrix puzzle which leaves one blank space in the matrix. User can move numbers left, right, up, or down to simply put the numbers in order. My code below only prints out the o...
Summary: Oops.. I noticed that my example of the list didnt quite came out as it was supposed to. But i hope u understood what i ment.. Its a different amount of blanks/spaces between the chars in the list. ...
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