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I have built a NAS for my home LAN, and shared parts of it with the rest of my Family. They all run Windows machines, while I run Debian Lenny. When I attempt to access part of the directories where they are asking for assistance, I often encounter files and even directories with spaces in their names. When I attempt to CD into these directories, I receive the message that no such directory exists, because the command doesn't know that the portion of the command following the space is still part of the directory or file name.
Question:
How can I access files and directories from the command line when the names of these files and/or directories have spaces in them?
I have built a NAS for my home LAN, and shared parts of it with the rest of my Family. They all run Windows machines, while I run Debian Lenny. When I attempt to access part of the directories where they are asking for assistance, I often encounter files and even directories with spaces in their names. When I attempt to CD into these directories, I receive the message that no such directory exists, because the command doesn't know that the portion of the command following the space is still part of the directory or file name.
Question:
How can I access files and directories from the command line when the names of these files and/or directories have spaces in them?
Thank you to everyone who has responded. The information you have provided is both important and timely.
Thank you again everyone!
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Originally Posted by bruceam
I have built a NAS for my home LAN, and shared parts of it with the rest of my Family. They all run Windows machines, while I run Debian Lenny. When I attempt to access part of the directories where they are asking for assistance, I often encounter files and even directories with spaces in their names. When I attempt to CD into these directories, I receive the message that no such directory exists, because the command doesn't know that the portion of the command following the space is still part of the directory or file name.
Question:
How can I access files and directories from the command line when the names of these files and/or directories have spaces in them?
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