add-price-quotes - windows command line

[tstalker at word-builder.com]

Quotes around just the filename or the entire path to it and the filename?

> 2009/7/8  <tstalker at word-builder.com>:
>> I've been trying to get the add-price-quotes command to work in my gnucash
>> program on my Windows XP computer. The file I need to run is on a different
>> hard drive from the program. Via the command line, I navigate to C:\Program
>> Files\gnucash\bin, where I run gnucash --add-price-quotes H:\My
>> Documents\Finances\software\gnucash\test
>>
>
> I don't know about the other questions but in the command line you
> would need quotes round the file name as it has an embedded space.
>
> Colin
>
>> test is the name of the file. I get a runtime error that I can't remember
>> now here at work, but I tried the syntax of the command differently, using
>> $HOME\path-file, reversing the slashes in the path, all multiple times.
>>
>> Same thing.
>>
>> Then I quit gnucash and tried running the command as well. Same thing.
>>
>> Then I tried updating prices from GUI. Would run but wouldn't update prices.
>> I think because I had already updated them from the GUI earlier.
>>
>> Is there a way to run the price editor auto updates by not using the command
>> line? Does the file have to reside on the same hard drive? How can I make a
>> cron job in Windows to update at a certain time?
>>
>> I'm rather comfortable with the command line on Unix but not in Windows. I
>> never use the terminal in Windows to do anything.
>>
>> Thanks, all
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