Is it possible to pass a workingdirectory with a space to MSBuild EXEC command task?

Question

For the Command parameter, one can escape the path via ", however, this doesn't work if there is a space in the WorkingDirectory parameter.

Does anyone have a solution?

Perhaps changing my environment HOMEDRIVE\ HOMEPATH setting before calling the build task, but that's horrible and probably not trivial.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '12 at 13:27

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No need to escape anything or do anything special. This should work:

<Exec Command="Path_to_some_executable.exe" WorkingDirectory="Path to some directory\with spaces" />

answered Mar 05 '12 at 13:27

BryanJ

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