pg_dump: too many command-line arguments when calling from cmd - cmd

Im trying to make a backup in a folder C:\Users\Marko Petričević\Documents\Radni_sati_Backup\proba where "proba" is the name of backup file.
My command looks like this:
pg_dump -h 192.168.130.240 -p 5433 -U postgres -F c postgres > C:\Users\Marko Petričević\Documents\Radni_sati_Backup\proba
and then i get an error: " pg_dump: too many command-line arguments (first is "Petričević\Documents\Radni_sati_Backup\proba") "
But, when I write a command like:
pg_dump -h 192.168.130.240 -p 5433 -U postgres -F c postgres >C:\radni_sati_backup\radni_sati_proba
Everything works, and I get that "radni_sati_proba" file in the directory as I listed in command.
Why is this happening?


Found out what the problem was:
pg_dump -h 192.168.130.240 -p 5433 -U postgres -F c postgres > C:\Users\Marko Petričević\Documents\Radni_sati_Backup\proba
needs to be like this:
pg_dump -h 192.168.130.240 -p 5433 -U postgres -F c postgres > "C:\Users\Marko Petričević\Documents\Radni_sati_Backup\proba"
Problem was the space in path.

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