Question

In .NET i’m running this line

var p = Process.Start(@"cmd", @"/C mklink /H c:\z\b c:\z\a\");

This works all fine however I’m worried that if one of the two args for mklink has a space that this wont work correctly. So I added “” around both parameters. Executing this line no longer worked and when I wrote \”” instead it still didn’t work.

How do I write quotes when I am executing cmd /C?

Answer 1

string sourcePath = @"c:\z\b";
string targetPath = @"c:\z\a";

string arguments = string.Format("\"{0}\" \"{1}\"", sourcePath, targetPath);

var p = Process.Start("cmd", "/C mklink /H " + arguments);

Working example:

string sourcePath = @"c:\documents and settings\harvey robert\My Documents\Test.txt";
string targetPath = @"c:\test";

string s = string.Format("\"{0}\" \"{1}\"", sourcePath, targetPath);
Process.Start("cmd", @"/c copy " + s);

1 files copied.