MisBehaving Terminal...

Discussion in 'Linux, BSD and Other OS's' started by Impotence, Jul 20, 2006.

  1. Impotence

    Impotence May the source be with u!

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    Hey,

    I have a Folder Called "ISO's" in my home folder and i cant access in from the terminal :S when i do "cd ISO's" i get this:-

    instead of changing dir to ISO's it goes onto the next line and shows a ">" no commands (whoami etc) work untill i ctrl+c!

    I know i can just rename the Folder (well... not at the moment as i have stuff d/l into it) but im wondering *why* i cant use any folder name with a > ' < in it in the terminal :S

    PS i was trying to tree my ISO's folder (apt-get install tree, i couldnt find any standard thing which did it in ubuntu) but instead i have to tree my home dir and cut and paste it out :p

    Here's how my 100% bandwidth usage is going! just 2 ISO's and MD5 hashes left to get! (and check) [NOTE: how do you remove uploaded files? lol just ignore map.txt, map2.txt is the right one!]
     

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  2. Addis

    Addis The King

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    I think the ' character signals bash to start a sort of input buffer until it reads an EOF character which is produced by CTRL-D (CTRL-C exits).
     
  3. Impotence

    Impotence May the source be with u!

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    hmm, better remember not to use it in file names then :D

    They work around i used was ISO*s, but that would also tree a folder called ISOes etc

    50 mins till i have the complete collection....
     
  4. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    Try it this way:
    Code:
    cd "ISO'S"
     
  5. Impotence

    Impotence May the source be with u!

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    That does indeed work, i'll still avoid > ' < tho as its just more work....

    thanks
     

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