On 28/08/10 18:23, Jakson A. Aquino wrote:
Hi!
How can a Vim script run a program which has spaces in its path? For
example, the following "system" command fails with the message
"'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file":
let rcmd = '"C:\Program files\R\R-2.11.1\bin\Rcmd.exe" BATCH "example.R"'
let rlog = system(rcmd)
if v:shell_error
echomsg rlog
endif
Thanks!
Jakson Aquino
On Dos- and Windows-like system you can use the 8.3 form of the
filenames, which will then rid you of the spaces: for instance you could
replace Program Files by PROGRA~1
If you can't use this method, or don't want to, you can use double
quotes on some system and backslash-escaping on others. On Windows you
may need backslash-escaping for internal Vim use and double quotes for
passing to the shell; on Unix-like systems you may need in some cases to
re-escape the escaping backslashes depending on how many levels of
"backslash interpretation" there are.
Best regards,
Tony.
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