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around path if there are spaces in it:cd "D:\My Documents\My Music\A Band\An Album"
cd /d C:\program files\Microsoft Office
works fine for me fromD:
on a Win XPcmd
instance. It is however, a really good habit to get in to, otherwise one day you'll use another application that cannot handle paths given as arguments that aren't enclosed.CD
command expects a single path argument (it does not take multiple directories). Therefore it interprets everything (other than the/d
switch) as a single path, including spaces. That’s why if you use the auto-completion character (defaults to TAB) withCD
, it only selects directories, while with other commands (egdir
,copy
, etc.), it selects files and directories together. Like DMA57361 said,CD
knows what it does and understands its arguments, so it handles them— or rather it —intelligently. (Were that all programs would do so. *sigh*)