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") -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike -- [email protected] mailing list
