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I have a directory called "foo bar baz blob". How can I



$ cd "foo bar baz blob"


I have tried with quoting (" and ') and with escaping the blanks ( ). It does not work. Tab-completion does not work either.



I also have to issue commands with filename arguments that contain spaces. How do I do that? Even MidnightCommander (mc) fails in doing this.



EDIT



Over one year later, I finally found the source of my problem. I have overloaded the builtin cd with a function that automatically lists the files of the changed directory:





$ type cd

cd ist eine Funktion.

cd () 

{ 

    if builtin cd $1; then

        ls;

    fi

}



$ cd Interner Speicher/

bash: cd: Interner: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden



$ builtin cd Interner Speicher/



$ pwd

/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A002%2C018%5D/Interner Speicher



$ ls

Alarms   DCIM      Movies  Notifications  Podcasts   SmsContactsBackup

Android  Download  Music   Pictures   Ringtones


The solution is easy: I just have to put double quotes around the $1:



if builtin cd "$1"; then


Ooof. Thank you.


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You have three options:




  • Escape the spaces using a backslash character

  • Wrap the directory name in double-quotes ("")

  • Use TAB completion



Creating the directory:



user@pc:~/testfolder$ ls -l

total 0

user@pc:~/testfolder$ mkdir "foo bar baz blob"

user@pc:~/testfolder$ ls

foo bar baz blob


Method 1:



user@pc:~/testfolder$ cd foo bar baz blob/

user@pc:~/testfolder/foo bar baz blob$ echo "This works"

This works


Method 2:



user@pc:~/testfolder$ cd "foo bar baz blob"/

user@pc:~/testfolder/foo bar baz blob$ echo "This works, too"

This works, too


Method 3:



user@pc:~/testfolder$ cd foo<TAB><ENTER>


Based on your comment on the other answer: for accessing the file named, the escaping needs to be done as follows:



Eric Burdon - Starportrait - CD 1 (flac).cue foo bar baz blob/


However, using TAB completion makes this process easier and avoids you having to escape the spaces manually.


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