Re: [SLUG] directories with spaces

From: Matt Miller (mmiller1@mptotalcare.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 15:50:48 EDT

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On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:46, Patrick (at work) wrote:
> In Linux how does "cd" into a directory which one of the characters in the
> name is a space?

By using quotes or "\":

$ cd "My Folder"
or
$ cd My\ Folder

Matt

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