Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is an on-again-off-again kind of problem. It usually hits me when
it is least convenient, like when I only have shell access to the
machine. Example:

[alan@agena ~]$ cd /media/My\ Book/
bash: cd: /media/My: No such file or directory
[alan@agena ~]$ cd "/media/My Book/"
bash: cd: /media/My: No such file or directory
[alan@agena ~]$ Gaaah!
bash: Gaaah!: command not found

What's up with that? Usually it is no trouble, but occasionally, bash
refuses to deal with spaces. I don't even know what to do in this
case.
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Put the space or the whole path in quotes?  This works for me.

cd /media/My" "Book/
cd "media/My Book/"

/fennix
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