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user779444
user779444

Reputation: 1395

C# Cmd Process Won't Work With Spaces

I am opening cmd.exe from my application and navigating it to a file but the problem is that if the file path has spaces in it, it won't go there.

Process.Start("cmd.exe", "/C choice /C Y /N /D Y /T 3 & cd C:\Temp Folder");

Instead for looking of Temp Folder, it will only look for temp I guess.

One way is to wrap the path with " " but I can't do it in a string. (tried ' ')

Another way is to loop through the path, find spaces and replace them with something, but I don't know with what.

I could use some help with either of this ways (if you have a better one, that's great)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2552

Answers (2)

Yochai Timmer
Yochai Timmer

Reputation: 49251

You need to use an escape character \ for special characters. So, to escape the " , use \"

Upvotes: 3

Bala R
Bala R

Reputation: 108957

The \ in the string needs to be escaped and you need to include folder names with space in double quotes.

Try

Process.Start("cmd.exe", @"/C choice /C Y /N /D Y /T 3 & cd C:\""Temp Folder""");

or

Process.Start("cmd.exe", "/C choice /C Y /N /D Y /T 3 & cd C:\\\"Temp Folder\"");

Upvotes: 4

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