[tex-live] How to do the following?

[Ralf Stubner]

David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

> I want to call some executable, preloading a format and running a
> file that might contain spaces in the file name.
>
> latex &format "file name with spaces"
>
> does not work 

This

pdfetex --fmt=latex "file with spaces.tex"

works for me. I have not tested this with other formats, though, and it
doesn't work with -ini. This variant seems to work with or without -ini:

pdfetex -ini '&latex \input{"file with spaces"}'

Not extensivley tested.

cheerio
ralf