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How does one deal with blank spaces in folder names in Windows?

By nlscb (Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 11:28:41 AM EST) blank spaces, windows xp, dos, special characters (all tags)

Yes, I should be using UNIX/LINUX, whatever. Unfortunately, my employer uses windows XP. I am trying to create a batch file that will use xcopy to copy selected folders and their contents to another directory.

Unfortunately, the folder paths have blank spaces such as:

c:\folder 1\folder 2\beer

Batch files break down in this case. Is there a special character that I can use? I have been googling groups this all morning and getting nowhere.

Any help would be very appreciated.

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Same way as in Unix by wiredog (4.00 / 3) #1 Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 11:32:04 AM EST

Put the folder name in double quotes:
xcopy "c:\folder 1\folder 2\beer" target

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Quotes by blixco (4.00 / 1) #2 Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 11:50:26 AM EST

and get a copy of robocopy, which is much cooler than xcopy.
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The others gave real answers by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #3 Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 01:03:14 PM EST

I'll just note that cygwin lets you use a bash shell on Windows.
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Your call is important to us. by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 2) #4 Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 06:51:05 PM EST

Please stay on hold, and your question will be answered by the first available operator.

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