[gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[Alexander Fortwinder]

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

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Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[TR3M3R3]

type the first letter and press TAB key...

;)

Alexander Fortwinder escribió:
> 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
>
>   
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Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[Mike Williams]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[PaulNM]

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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[Justin R Findlay]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:07:14PM +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> Escape the spaces with backslashes, or put the name inside single quotes 
> or double quotes. Bash auto-completion escapes the spaces for you.

Let's everyone take a moment to reflect upon how much bash means to us.

<PAUSE>

Thank you.  Now returning to your previously scheduled program already
in progress ...


Justin
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Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[Alan]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 07:49:59PM +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> 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>

mf /home/This* /home/newdirectoryname/

(assuming that there is only one dir starting with "This")

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Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[Alexander Skwar]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

[Alexander Skwar]

Mike Williams schrieb:

> /home/"This  is a   some directory"

Now, if you're trying to get funny, this would also work:

/home"/This "\ is' 'a'  'some\ director"y"

;)

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