Mac OS X terminal help

xplod · #1 October 5th, 2009, 11:47 PM

I have maybe a simple question. I am using a teminal to switch from one directory to another. I see the folder on my desktop, i can go in to it. That folder contains another set of folders. when i cd in to one of them terminal tells me that there is no such file or directory. what gives?

macbri · #2 October 6th, 2009, 12:11 AM

Is there a space in the folder name? If so, escape it with a backslash, or wrap the folder name in single quotes. For example, if a folder is called "My Stuff" you could do one of the following:

Code:

cd My\ Stuff
cd 'My Stuff'

xplod · #3 October 6th, 2009, 12:17 AM

thank you. it worked both ways. I had a folder called Week 2. tried Week_2, didn't work, tried different combination that two didn't work.