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.bat file - cd to a directory with a space in its name and also using a variable?

Answer 1

+1 A:

How about:

cd "%directory%\sampleFolder"

Philippe Leybaert 2010-06-04 20:22:03

yeah, tried that, no go

splatback 2010-06-04 20:22:39

Are you sure? This should work (just tested it)

Philippe Leybaert 2010-06-04 20:24:41

yeah, thats the weird thing, i thought it should work too, but for some reason it's not...

splatback 2010-06-04 20:26:22

It works perfectly!

Ehsan 2010-06-04 20:26:28

do you think you could send me the code on how you did it? please :)

splatback 2010-06-04 20:26:39

seems like it should work to me.

Dave 2010-06-04 20:27:02

@splatback: why don't you show us YOUR code?

Philippe Leybaert 2010-06-04 20:29:50

Answer 2

A:

set /p DIR="path:"
cd %DIR%

Works just fine.

Aviral Dasgupta 2010-06-04 20:28:14

strange, still no go for me. but i'll try again later, thanks (and to everyone else) for helping :)

splatback 2010-06-04 20:30:16

@splatback: Maybe you're using a version of Microsoft Windows that's too old (older version of cmd.exe? or maybe command.com?) or too new (Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7), which do not have that directory...

Aviral Dasgupta 2010-06-04 20:36:39

You probably shouldn't overwrite the PATH environment variable here ...

Joey 2010-06-23 17:42:19

@Johannes : It won't do that. Changing %PATH% from a terminal only changes it for that terminal. The system PATH stays the same... but yes...

Aviral Dasgupta 2010-06-23 22:50:57

@Aviral: That's obvious. It still prevents you from running most applications from that console until you either re-set PATH or close it.

Joey 2010-06-24 05:05:27

Answer 3

A:

@ECHO OFF
ECHO Enter Directory
SET/p directory=
CHDIR %directory%

Works for me (Windows 7) but should work for XP/Vista/etc

Mark Baker 2010-06-04 20:34:34

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