Re: [CentOS] [OT] OSX-10.9.3 cd ~'/ problem with spaces'

James B. Byrne wrote:

On Tue, June 3, 2014 12:13, SilverTip257 wrote:

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Escape the space with a backslash. cd ~/Library/Application\ Support

hll-m22:~ byrnejb$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support -bash: cd: /Users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory hll-m22:~ byrnejb$ cd ~/"Library/Application\ Support" -bash: cd: /Users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory

<snip> Really dumb question: what happens when you cd /Users/byrnejb/Library ? Once there, what's ls -laF show?

Btw, I would only have quoted the directory with the space in it: ~/Library/"Application Support"

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