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DOS ? recursive dirs with spaces in the name 1

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hovercraft

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Jun 19, 2006
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Sorry, I don't know where else to look for help on this.

I'm trying to use a bat file to copy a file into several directories and all of their sub directories. It works great until it hits a directory with a space in the name then it goes on to the next directory.

Any idea how I could change this line to consider spaces?

Code:
for /R %toptarget% %%i in (.) do (
copy %myfile% %%i
)

Thanks for your help!
Dave
 
Put double-quotes around the path, for example:
copy "%myfile%" "%%i
 
Thanks Guitarzan, you're the guitar man!

I've read through billions of posts and couldn't find the answer.
 
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