cd command?

[owaters]

How do I cd to a directory containing a space?
For example the 'iTunes Music' directory in '/Documents/iTunes'

I tried:

cd Documents/iTunes/iTunes Music/

but got the error:

cd: Too many arguments.

 

[dafuser]

Originally posted by owaters
How do I cd to a directory containing a space?
For example the 'iTunes Music' directory in '/Documents/iTunes'

I tried:

cd Documents/iTunes/iTunes Music/

but got the error:

cd: Too many arguments.

Try cd Documents/iTunes/iTunes*

 

[dafuser]

Originally posted by owaters
How do I cd to a directory containing a space?
For example the 'iTunes Music' directory in '/Documents/iTunes'

I tried:

cd Documents/iTunes/iTunes Music/

but got the error:

cd: Too many arguments.

I forgot another way

Try cd Documents/iTunes/iTunes\ Music

Trap the space with a "\" character. Type the \ then the space or whatever the meta character is. You can use this method to trap any meta charater in a file/directory name.

Meta characters are the top characteres on your numeric keys like the !, @ # $ %

 

[adambyte]

Ooh looky! Here's another way! Put the whole thing in quotations marks, like so:

cd "Documents/iTunes/iTunes Music/"

Yiasou.

 

[DMCrimson]

you can also use tabulator to complete names of directories, files...if there are many choices, it'll stop where similarities end....or if pressed twice in that case, show all possibilities

 

[owaters]

Thanks guys!

 

[Da_iMac_Daddy]

I've had some problems with spaces in some CLI applications so now I just use an underscore ...