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From:	PaulNM <gentoo@×××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?
Date:	Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:24:09
Message-Id:	`44C123C5.3020105@paulscrap.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it? by Alexander Fortwinder

1	Alexander Fortwinder wrote:
2	> Hi everyone,
3	>
4	> I'm downloading a torrent file which created a directory name with spaces, so when I try to access it in bash,
5	> it is reported as not being found. How do I deal with it? For example, /home/This is a some directory
6	> Thanks for suggestions.
7	> Alex
8	>
9	You need to escape the spaces:
10
11	cd /home/This\ \ is\ a\ \ \ some\ directory
12
13	Put a \ in front of any special characters. Between This and is there
14	are 2 spaces, so it's \space\space.
15	Auto complete should help out here, just hit tab after the first few
16	letters. If more than one file/directory matches, it'll show you all the
17	matching examples.
18
19	PaulNM
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