Help with FOR /D with space in pathname

[sfgman63]

My FOR loop works when there are no spaces in the path name

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FOR /D %%i IN (C:\FCTLogs\FirstRun\TestLogs\ABC*) DO RMDIR /S /Q %%i

But when there is a space it doesn't work (tried enclosing in quotes and still didn't work):

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FOR /D %%i IN (C:\Documents and Settings\TestLogs\ABC*) DO RMDIR /S /Q %%i

I tried setting the path to a variable and it still didn't work
set logdir=C:\Documents and Settings

Thanks for all the help.

[sxekjb]

try using

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FOR /D %%i IN (C:\docume~1\TestLogs\ABC*) DO RMDIR /S /Q %%i 

[DosItHelp]

Or put quotes around both the search pattern ("C:\FCTLogs\FirstRun\TestLogs\ABC*") and the substitution variable ("%%i").

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FOR /D %%i IN ("C:\FCTLogs\FirstRun\TestLogs\ABC*") DO RMDIR /S /Q "%%i"

DosItHelp?

[sfgman63]

Thanks sxekjb and DosItHelp, both of your suggestions worked.