From: PaulNM <gentoo@paulscrap.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:58:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C123C5.3020105@paulscrap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060721223445.e73d3227.alex_fortwinder@nerdshack.com>
Alexander Fortwinder wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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.
> Alex
>
You need to escape the spaces:
cd /home/This\ \ is\ a\ \ \ some\ directory
Put a \ in front of any special characters. Between This and is there
are 2 spaces, so it's \space\space.
Auto complete should help out here, just hit tab after the first few
letters. If more than one file/directory matches, it'll show you all the
matching examples.
PaulNM
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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
2006-07-21 19:16 ` Alan
2006-07-21 20:11 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-21 18:58 ` PaulNM [this message]
[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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