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Re: file names with spaces


From: Leo Butler
Subject: Re: file names with spaces
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:37:06 +0000 (GMT)
User-agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14)


On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Jaana Tommiska wrote:

< Hi,
< I tryed to change directory 
< cd My Documents 
< but i think the space in  the file name caused difficulties. How can I 
overcome this problem ?
< And how can I set current working directory ?
< Thanks 
< Jaana
 
Try
cd "My Documents"

octave:17> pwd
ans = /home/work
octave:18> mkdir "tmp example"
ans =  1
octave:19> cd "tmp example"
octave:20> pwd
ans = /home/work/tmp example

Leo

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