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Number   :  8463
Date     :  2004-08-05
Author   :  John Zeman
Subject  :  Re: Long filename with space
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "KC Cheung"  wrote:
> Guess we have to enclose long paths and filenames with space in 
quotation marks like 
> 
> > xxcopy /EC/WS/NX0 "C:\Documents and Settings\*.*" "F:\Documents 
and 
> > Settings\" /BU/FF
> 
> If affirmative, is there any syntax on the use of quotation marks 
please?
> 
> Regards
> KC Cheung
> 
>


The simple and short answer is if the source and/or destination paths 
contain spaces, they must be enclosed in double quotes.

This is basically true for all command line applications. Otherwise 
the Windows command interpreter sees a space as a delimiter and 
truncates the path at the point where the first space occurs. For 
example, without double quotes

C:\My Directory\

Would be interpreted as C:\My

Which of course would result in an error.

If in doubt, you can always enclose the source and destination in 
double quotes and xxcopy will work just fine whether there are spaces 
in the paths or not.

Xxcopy "C:\" "D:\My Directory\"


John



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