Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

[Johnathon Jamison]

That is strange quoting syntax, with carets, but it works.  I wonder why 
the last caret is needed, which does seem to be required.  Thank you for 
giving this to me, since I had not seen this example.

None of the solutions using cmd are great, because it can be hard to 
explain such things to customers.

Johnathon

Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Johnathon Jamison (Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:11:12 -0700)
>> I am having some funny behavior.  If I have a .bat file that is in a 
>> directory whose pathname contains a space, and an argument is given to 
>> the .bat file that has a space in it, then the .bat file fails to run. 
>> Instead, I get "'xxx' is not recognized as an internal or external 
>> command, operable program or batch file." where xxx is the portion of 
>> the complete path to the .bat file before the first space.
>>
>> I am not sure why this is occurring.  Any help would be appreciated.  I 
>> have more specific information and a sample run below.  If I have left 
>> anything out, just ask.  In particular, I am not sure which version 
>> numbers would be needed, or where to find (many of) them.
> 
> Try escaping the spaces and some of the quotes. wfm in the other test 
> case mentioned:
> cmd /c "F:\tmp\dir^ with^ space\test.bat^" "Hello, world."
> 

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