Windows command prompt: escape special characters within quotation marks

Question

I´d like to untar a tar.gz file with 7-Zip using this command:

forfiles /M *tar.gz /C "cmd /c "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z" e @path"

but I can´t make it work because of the whitespace within Program Files. How can I escape it?

Update:

My alternative solution is:

set 7ZPath="C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z"
%7ZPath% e *.tar.gz

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '13 at 13:26

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forfiles /M *tar.gz /C "cmd /c "%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z" e @path"

answered Jan 22 '13 at 13:26

Abhineet

This would make the code more robust if it worked - Use of the environment variable instead of hard coding makes the code more portable. But it does not solve the problem of the dissapearing quotes causing white space problem. – dbenham Jan 22 '13 at 13:56

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '13 at 13:50

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Quotes within your FORFILES command string must be escaped as \"

forfiles /M *tar.gz /C "cmd /c \"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z\" e @path"

answered Jan 22 '13 at 13:50

dbenham

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