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Re: [LUG] how do iI cd into a directory with spaces??



hi theo,

i thought single quotes were used in shell commands

#find / -name 'some_file*' -print

etc.

i think both double and single quotes work - what is the difference between them,

thanks,

kev



Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
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On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:50 am, Darren Ward wrote:

I can do this on my windows partition by using the ~1 on the end, but what
about linux??


either:

cd "Some Directory"

or

cd Some\ Directory

~ Theo

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