Accessing Artist Folders in terminal
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This seems pretty basic, but I have a folder in Music on my device that I cannot delete with the device connected to windoz file explorer. I have switched to Ubuntu on terminal, I have ssh'ed into the device and am in the Music folder. The folders with a space, like between a first name and a last name I cannot access, it returns the error "no such file or directory exists" even though I type just as shown when I list the folder contents. Is there a special character I should use in place of the Space?
I can access the folder(directory) with a single word title....
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@mw4jet Try enclosing the name with either single or double quotes. So don't type George Ezra but type 'George Ezra'.
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@ian Thank you Ian, I tried to search but couldn't say it in a way to return any web pages that what I was getting at.
It worked with single quotes.
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@mw4jet Nature abhors a vacuum and Linux/Unix abhors a space. If you type
rm George Ezra
then the OS tries to delete a file/directory called George and another one called Ezra. Both of these don't exist so it lets you know and doesn't delete the thing you wanted to. Enclose it in quotes and all is well.
