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

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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, jack wallen <jlwallen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> you can put the path in a single quote like so:
>
> cd '/media/My Book/'

Thanks, but still no joy:

[alan@agena ~]$ cd '/media/My Book/'
bash: cd: /media/My: No such file or directory
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