Alexander Fortwinder wrote: > Hi everyone, > > 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. > Alex > You need to escape the spaces:
cd /home/This\ \ is\ a\ \ \ some\ directory Put a \ in front of any special characters. Between This and is there are 2 spaces, so it's \space\space. Auto complete should help out here, just hit tab after the first few letters. If more than one file/directory matches, it'll show you all the matching examples. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
