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Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping

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On 5/29/2012 7:06 AM, Lew wrote:
> Nigel Wade wrote:
>> Silvio Bierman wrote:
>>> bilsch wrote:
>>>> I'm writing a DOS script that uses pathnames with the well known
>>>> Windows
>>>> directory 'My Documents'. The name has a space in it that causes javac
>>>> and java commands to choke. Neither of the following works:
>>>> 'My Documents' (single quotes) or My\ Documents (escape the space).
>>>> Here is an example:
>>>>
>>>> javac -d C:/Users/Owner/'My
>>>> Documents'/NetBeansProjects/%1/build/classes
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me the workaround for this?
>>>>
>>>> TIA Bill S.
>>>
>>> Not really Java related but anyway: in DOS/Windows you need to quote the
>>> complete path like "C:/My Documents/Pictures/abc.WMV" etc.
>>>
>>
>> it's often very convenient to use tab expansion of paths (both in
>> Windows cmd
>> shell, and UNIX/Linux bash shell). This would have discovered the
>> correct path
>> for the OP. For example, enter in the cmd.exe:
>>
>> javac -d C:\Users\Owner\My
>>
>> then hit tab. Windows will do the rest, even adding appropriate quotes
>> where
>> necessary. Note that you must use the Windows \ path separator for
>> this to work.
>
> "/" is a Windows path *element* separator. ";" is the path separator in
> Windows.
>
> Windows is fine with forward slashes in paths. I suspect the "%1"
> expansion.
>
  I discovered that the directory is called simply 'Documents' in DOS 
instead of 'My Documents' as in Windows.  So there's no need of quoting. 
  The javac command produces a class file.

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Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 05:16 -0700
  Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-05-29 14:32 +0200
    Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2012-05-29 13:58 +0100
      Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-29 07:06 -0700
        Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-29 09:27 -0700
          Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 14:07 -0700
            Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-29 21:43 +0000
              Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-05-29 16:37 -0600
            Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-29 14:55 -0700
              Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 16:06 -0700
                Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-02 09:31 -0700
                Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-03 19:23 -0700
        Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 12:55 -0700
        Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2012-05-30 10:30 +0100
      Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 12:54 -0700
    Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 12:50 -0700
  Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-29 07:31 -0700
    Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 12:59 -0700

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