Ending quote mark not required

[therube]

("DOS" command line) Ending quote marks may not necessarily required - in many cases.

Windows, may not require an ending quote mark, only an opening, in many cases.

So you can do something like,

DIR "c:\my documents

instead of having to do,

DIR "c:\my documents"

.

DIR "c:\my*

or

DIR "c:\my do*

, will list the directory name, "My Documents".

DIR "c:\my documents

, will list the directory contents of "My Documents".


Doesn't work everywhere, & what a particular program requires may vary.
And kind of obvious, but for this to be of benefit, the directory (or file name) [with spaces] would need to be the final command line argument.