VBS with Space in File Path

Question

This is what I have and can not get the bat to run, if I move the bat to a folder without spaces in the name it works. My problem is that the actual bat is in a folder with spaces, so I need this to work.

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run("%comspec% /K C:\Program Files\ping.bat"), 1, True

Answer 1

You need to quote the file specification:

Run("%comspec% /K ""C:\Program Files\ping.bat""")

Answer 2

I had a similar problem with a directory path in a VBScript that had empty spaces:

E.g.

The following did not work:

objShell.Run("C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.0.2\bin\netbeans64.exe") 

I simply included two extra double quotations on either side of the path and it worked for me:

objShell.Run("""C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.0.2\bin\netbeans64.exe""")