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EXPAND Command Does Not Recognize Path with Spaces

Article ID: 155564

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition

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SYMPTOMS

The EXPAND command does not work if the file you want to expand has spaces in its name. For example, the following command does not work:

expand /l c:\temp stuff <source>

This command generates the following error message:

Can't open input file: temp

RESOLUTION

Enclose the entire path in quotation marks. For example, using the same command as above, you would type:

expand /l "c:\temp stuff" <source>

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