Re: problem with & in directory names

  • From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:09:33 +0200

My workaround is to right-click the offending folder and click open.
That goes for every subdirectory of the offending directory as well.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:29 AM,  <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:40:24 +0200
> Anders Lagerås <anders.lageras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> If there is a &-charachter in a directory name and I try to navigate in
>> to it, I get this error message:
>> sh>cd /download/1_&_1  (8816)
>> /bin/bash: line 0: cd: /download/1_: No such file or directory
>> /bin/bash: _1: command not found
>> sh>cd /download/1_&_1 (8816) returned '127'
>> How can I get it to work?
>
> Does it help to quote the filepath ? (probably: cd %f instead of cd %%f)
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
>
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