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From: Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:49:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607211950.00735.mike@gaima.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060721223445.e73d3227.alex_fortwinder@nerdshack.com>

On Friday 21 July 2006 19:34, Alexander Fortwinder wrote:
> I'm downloading a torrent file which created a directory name with spaces,
> so when I try to access it in bash, it is reported as not being found. How
> do I deal with it? For example, /home/This  is a   some directory Thanks
> for suggestions.

/home/This\ \ is\ a\ \ \ some\ directory
"/home/This  is a   some directory"
/home/"This  is a   some directory"
/home/This<tab>

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Mike Williams

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-21 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-21 18:34 [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it? Alexander Fortwinder
2006-07-21 18:49 ` TR3M3R3
2006-07-21 18:49 ` Mike Williams [this message]
2006-07-21 19:16   ` Alan
2006-07-21 20:11   ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-21 18:58 ` PaulNM
     [not found] ` <200607212107.14944.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
2006-07-21 19:05   ` Justin R Findlay
2006-07-21 20:09 ` Alexander Skwar

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