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Re: RENAME problem: directories with spaces?

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Sep 04, 2006
• 528 views

The subject of this thread certainly is NOT
"Digest for EUforum at topica.com, issue 6085"

Cuvier Christian wrote:

>> posted by: Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodigy.net>
>>
>>
>> Juergen's suggestion for using "rename" with "system" command,
>> }}}
<eucode>
>> sequence myvar
>> myvar = "\"the old.txt\" \"the new.txt\""    -- or whatever
>> is required
>> system("rename " & myvar, 2)
>> </eucode>
{{{

>> seems like it should have worked, but didn't; I get an error about
>>  "bad command format", but when I make it print out, it looks
>> fine, except:
>>
>> the path to the file(s) includes more than one directory with
>> SPACES in them,
>> which I think is the problem, and I vaguely remember that
>> there's a "trick"
>> to making directories with spaces work, but I don't rember what it IS.
>>
>> Is there such a trick?  (& what is it if there is)
>> (in the code example above, I put the path to the file in
>> front of myvar)
>>
>> Dan
>>
> 
> To pass directory names with spaces or other non alpha characters in it, you
> only have to surround them with double quotes, as in

"only" is false.

> rename "C:\Program Files\test" "C:\Program Files\old test"
> 
> which needs the following Eu code to be issued:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> system(
> "rename \"C:\\Program Files\\test\" \"C:\\Program Files\\old test\""
> ,2)
> </eucode>
{{{


Code like this does not work on my system, see
<http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/m9587.html>.

Regards,
   Juergen

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