Hi,

when you cd to a directory that has spaces in its name, you have to escape
the spaces with a back slash, e.g.:

[/]$ cd dir\ name\ with\ spaces\ in\ name
[/dir name with spaces in name]$

as for scrolling up, try SHIFT+PGUP.

HTH,
David Charles


On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:

> I've got a couple of newbie questions that I've just never really
> bothered asking before but it's always bothered me, so here goes.  1st,
> I've noticed that bash doesn't seem to handle spaces in directory or
> file names very well.  When I look at my windows partitions from linux,
> I can see the complete file names, but when I try to 'cd' to a certain
> directory, bash doesn't seem to deal to well with the spaces.  I've
> found that I can just use an asterisk in place of the spaces, but is
> there another way?
>
> 2nd, if I'm at the command line, no X server involved, is there a way to
> 'scroll' up to see what stout was previously on the screen?  Say I do
> 'ls' and then do some other stuff and lose that information, is there
> anyway to retrieve that screen or is it just printed once and lost?
>
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> Kirkland, WA
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