Copy long file name

I take it you are trying to do this from a command prompt in Windows, ?, and you are trying to do this in something like a BAT program.

This can be done a few ways. One is to use quotes around the name of the file.

eg. copy "a long file name.txt" temp.txt

Or to use the shorten file name, the one with the tilde (~).

eg. copy alongf~1.txt temp.txt

Notice in the second example, there is no space and that the name of the file is the first 6 characters, minus the space, of the file followed by the extention.

Hope this helps.

for the file name, take the first 6 letters of it and add an ~1 then add the filenames extension. For example. IF you wanted to copy Windows 95.txt you would type window~1.txt.

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