The "trick" is to tell your shell not to interpret the spaces as separaors between arguments. This is called "escaping" the character.
You can do it in many ways:
-enclose within double-quotes : cd "my directory"
This allows for variable interpolation within the quotes
-enclose within simple-quotes : cd 'my directory"
This disallows variable interpolation within the quotes, making it easier if you happen to have a "$" sign in the name
-escape the character with \ before it: cd my\ directory .
The \ sign only escape one single character at a time, whereas the quotes escape everything that is enclosed.
This (putting a \) is the way bash or tcsh will complete your command line if you try typing the beginning of the name then the tabulation key.
HTH
Thierry
-----Original Message-----
From: Reed Loefgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Spaces in file names
Hi all,
I serve my Mac files from a linuxppc server. If, while at a linux box,
I go into the server to the Mac files' directory the proper directory
and file names are displayed; including spaces in those names. How can I
"cd" into one of those directories? Do I have to go to the Mac and
remove spaces from names to make them accessible to Linux?
I've already tried cd [word][option-spacebar for "hard space"][word],
but this isn't accepted by bash. What's the trick, or is it just not
do-able?
Thanks,
Reed
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