Comments on: Linux Command Line – Dealing with spaces in filenames http://www.michaeldolan.com/49 Linux, Law, Open Source, and a Comedy of Errors Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kees http://www.michaeldolan.com/49/comment-page-1#comment-51867 Kees Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:16:36 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/49#comment-51867 If you have a dirname like "My Photo's", you can pass a part of the directory as argument, with globbing: so: cd My* returns My Photo's cd *Ph* returns My Photo's If you have a dirname like “My Photo’s”, you can pass a part of the directory as argument, with globbing:

so:

cd My* returns My Photo’s
cd *Ph* returns My Photo’s

]]> By: Fez http://www.michaeldolan.com/49/comment-page-1#comment-43889 Fez Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:17:58 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/49#comment-43889 You can also use: # cd "This Dir" which works exactly the same as # cd This\ Dir You can also use:

# cd “This Dir”

which works exactly the same as

# cd This\ Dir

]]> By: R Smith http://www.michaeldolan.com/49/comment-page-1#comment-12717 R Smith Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:29:27 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/49#comment-12717 Thank you for this simple fact. I have been using Ubuntu for about a month now, and I have been forced to use many was to get around the fact that command line would not reconginse the filenames with spaces in them. Thank you good sir Thank you for this simple fact. I have been using Ubuntu for about a month now, and I have been forced to use many was to get around the fact that command line would not reconginse the filenames with spaces in them. Thank you good sir

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