in reply to Windows System Command

The book "Mastering Windows XP Home Edition" has a section "Troubleshooting: Command Prompt Errors Involving Special Characters". It suggest several solutions to problems like yours. I prefer to "escape" spaces and other special file name characters with a caret (^). I assume that the same syntax is allowed in newer versions of Windows.

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Re^2: Windows System Command
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 27, 2012 at 22:48 UTC

    You cannot (and never could) escape spaces in pathnames with caret (^):

    C:\test>dir \Program^ Files\*
The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\test>dir "\Program Files\*"
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8C78-4B42

 Directory of C:\Program Files

30/04/2012  19:40    <DIR>          .
30/04/2012  19:40    <DIR>          ..
...

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