[tex-live] How to do the following?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

  > latex "&format" "file name with spaces"

The quotes you typed are evaluated by the shell and are not seen by tex.

$ etex \&latex "\"file with spaces\""
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./file with spaces.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
[....]

Regards,
  Reinhard

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