Powershell cant read a command with spaces despite the use of " an '

Question

I have a script that imports a application bundle and adds an application as a dependency. The command is capable of reading "Application bundle" in quotation marks but is unable to read the program when i use spaces. For instance i have a program called "French bundle". If i change the name of the program to Frenchbundle then the command works, But if i use spacebar the command doesn't work for some reason.

This also seems to apply when i use files with - in the name while files with _ in the name works perfectly fine.

Is there any solution for this?.

Update: i solved the issue by specifying both parent directories before French bundle. It turns out my issue had nothing to do with spacebars.

Answer 1

If you want to launch wordpad from powershell and account for the space in Program Files, you would do it like this.

&'C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe'

Answer 2

For the record im not looking for a general solution on how to write file names with spaces in. "Application bundle" works just fine and every other command in my script works with spaces, Even when im targeting a specific file.

The same file that didn't work in this script "French bundle" worked perfectly fine with spaces in another command where i imported it.

It's just files after -dependency that cant be read with spaces for some reason, Like i mentioned i can import these files with -dependency if i change the files name to French_bundle or Frenchbundle.

The command understands the quotation marks too since "Frenchbundle" works.