Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mike Williams schrieb: /home/"This is a some directory" Now, if you're trying to get funny, this would also work: /home"/This "\ is' 'a' 'some\ director"y" ;) Alexander Skwar -- How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a lightbulb? It depends on how many bad ones he

Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Fortwinder schrieb: 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. What did you do? What was the *EXACT* command? How do I deal with it? Correctly :) For example, /

Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread TR3M3R3
type the first letter and press TAB key... ;) Alexander Fortwinder escribió: 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 so

Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread Alan
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

Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread PaulNM
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:07:14PM +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Escape the spaces with backslashes, or put the name inside single quotes > or double quotes. Bash auto-completion escapes the spaces for you. Let's everyone take a moment to reflect upon how much bash means to us. Thank you. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread Mike Williams
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 sugges

[gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread Alexander Fortwinder
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l