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From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] shell commands etc
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:43:01PM -0700, Erroll Partridge wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> i am using ubuntu 5.10 on my pentium 3, 128mb ram hp vectra.
.......
>> 3. how do i, using bash, navigate to a directory/ folder in which its
>> folder name consists of a space? cd Linux Software, for example, won't
>> work.
>>
.......
> The backslash is used to escape certain characters, and a space is one
> of those characters.
>
> So, in bash you could go
>
> cd stupi
>
> hit the tab key and you'll see
>
> stupid\ file\ name
> and if you hit enter, it will then cd to that directory.
>
> THe other option is to put it in (if you know it's name) in quotes,
> either single or double in this case, such as
>
> cd 'stupid file name'
>
scott and erroll,
that was interesting. i am gonna' have to try that. but also, wouldn't
using <%20> in place of the <space> work too? so in erroll's example above
changing to the "Linux Software" directory, couldn't he also do the
following? cd Linux%20Software
sorry, just got a new computer and haven't had the time to do an install of
linux yet, so couldn't try it out to see if that would work.
j
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