copy C:\Users\MinCarve\documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\PROGRAM\Debug\PROGRAM.exe
C:\Users
returns
The system cannot find the file specified. when the executable exists in that directory!
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3Probably need quotes around the file name. – Colonel Thirty Two Aug 18 '17 at 12:22
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how do i add quotes to the directory, if it is a variable in c++? – MinCarve Aug 18 '17 at 12:33
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Related: [Set a path variable with spaces in the path in a Windows .cmd file or batch file](https://stackoverflow.com/q/1851012) – aschipfl Aug 18 '17 at 12:35
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after an hour of digging, i finally did it! `string _Loc(Loc); string __Loc = "\"" + _Loc + "\""; system(("copy " + __Loc + " \"C:\\Windows\System32\"").c_str());` – MinCarve Aug 18 '17 at 13:10
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The path of your file has a space in its name, which means you have to surround the path which contains spaces with quotation marks.
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copy C:\Users\MinCarve\documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\PROGRAM\Debug\PROGRAM.exe C:\Users
has FOUR parameters. It tries to copy
C:\Users\MinCarve\documents\visual (which does (probably) not exist) to the location
studio (which (probably) doesn't exist too, and two more parameters:
2017\Projects\PROGRAM\Debug\PROGRAM.exe
C:\Users
Copy stops with the first error found, in this case, C:\Users\MinCarve\documents\visual does not exist.
Solution: quote parameters that contain one or more spaces. Best practice: do it anyway: copy "source" "destination".
copy "C:\Users\MinCarve\documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\PROGRAM\Debug\PROGRAM.exe" "C:\Users\"
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@Kirsten: is that the explanation you are looking for, or do you need anything more? – Stephan Feb 24 '23 at 14:12
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Thanks @Stephan. I think my problem may be something to do with the vm being on a Linux box. I may need to ask a separate question. As a work around I just got rid of the spaces. – Kirsten Feb 24 '23 at 18:35
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1Shouldn't make a difference whether Win runs on a physical or virtual machine. – Stephan Feb 24 '23 at 18:47
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I think it might be a permissions thing. I was able to run a similar command as administrator. I was copying to a subfolder of C:\Program Files (x86) – Kirsten Feb 25 '23 at 00:41
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