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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:09:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C1348D.3020100@mid.email-server.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060721223445.e73d3227.alex_fortwinder@nerdshack.com>

Alexander Fortwinder schrieb:
> 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.

What did you do? What was the *EXACT* command?

> How do I deal with it?

Correctly :)


> For example, /home/This  is a   some directory

cd /home/This\ \ is\ a\ \ \ some\ directory

As I close to always use tab expansion, I'd type

cd /home/This<tab>and get what I wrote above.


Alexander Skwar
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-21 20:19 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
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 [this message]

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