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hellen_dorandt89
hellen_dorandt89

Reputation: 457

How can I correctly quote Paths with spaces in them?

The below example does not execute as expected in Powershell:

Path := """C:\Temp\Test 1.svg"""
Run, C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7-preview\pwsh.exe -NoProfile -NoExit -Command Set-MetaData -Path %Path% -Notes "Hello" ,,

It will instead create a new file in Temp folder called Test But if the Path being provided by the Path variable does not have any spaces in it, it runs as expected:

Path := """C:\Temp\Test1.svg"""
Run, C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7-preview\pwsh.exe -NoProfile -NoExit -Command Set-MetaData -Path %Path% -Notes "Hello" ,,

I've tried all sorts of things such as expression syntax of -Path "Path"" -Notes "Hello" I did not get positive results. Expression syntax always throws me of because of the double quotes , so am not sure if am doing it right.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 359

Answers (1)

0x464e
0x464e

Reputation: 6489

You're not escaping quotes enough.
You get into a real escape hell here and you actually seem to need quintuple quotes ("""""test test""""") around the argument passed into pwsh.exe.
So in AHK you'd want

path := """""""""test test"""""""""
run, % "pwsh.exe -NoProfile -NoExit -Command echo " path

(Tested simply with the echo command because I don't have whatever Set-MetaData is)

To avoid this headache, you can use single quotes:

path := "'test test'"
run, % "pwsh.exe -NoProfile -NoExit -Command echo " path

Upvotes: 2

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