problems with the ln command

Hannes Mayer h.mayer at inode.at
Mon Jul 5 18:15:34 UTC 2004


Fons van der Beek wrote:
> That's rather hard to do because other directories have spaces in the
> directory name..
> insteam of "Nelly" e.g. "beasty boys" then I need those quotation marks....

I'm not sure if the " cause any problems, but in case of spaces
in file/directory-names, just use the backslash

# cd /there\ are\ many\ spaces/in\ this\ path

Cheers,
Hannes.





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