Dos command file spaces

All operations at the command prompt involving long names with spaces, however, must be treated differently. The same convention is being followed in Windows NT command prompt operations even when using long filenames.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Dan Dan 3 3 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Enclose the paths containing spaces with double quotes.

Then the problem lies in what the argument syntax of Rar. You might be using it wrongly. What should it be? Do underscores in file names count? But if your file's name is file name with a space, you have to use "file name". Otherwise, the interpreter reads the part file only, the space acts as a delimiter, following that it treats the next word as another argument.

This leads to error if the second argument was not expected in that form. James Brown James Brown 41 1 1 bronze badge. Patrick Prakash Patrick Prakash 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. The same thing has been already said half a dozen times. What extra value does this add? 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.

Alan Elston Alan Elston 71 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. You should try using quotes. Jaanus Jaanus This is not reliable. Under certain cases see microsoft. If the string does not have quotes then it will remain unchanged. Trimming spaces at the end of a variable seems a little tricky. The following example shows how to use a FOR loop to trim up to 31 spaces from the end of a string.

It assumes that Delayed Expansion is enabled. The following example shows how to use the string substitution feature to trim up to 31 spaces from the end of a string. It assumes that the string to be trimmed never contains two hash " " characters in a row.

By Ross Killen. We get this question all the time from third party developers who work with us. It's a must implement in any stable batch file. The problem: We want to loop through a file where either the name or path has a space in it.