moving folders

[Jon Dixon]

Or do Floppy\ Files ...

Or use bash's completion.

Or use more *nix-friendly names :)

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:16:39 +0000, Daniel Silverstone
<dsilvers at digital-scurf.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:09 +0000, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> >Yes, the name of the folder is Floppy Files.
> >> > > $ sudo mv /home/username1/Desktop/foldername /home/username2/Desktop
> 
> Consider putting the whole path in double-quotes
> 
> sudo mv "/home/user1/Desktop/Floppy Files" "/home/user2/Desktop"
> sudo chown -R user2. "/home/user2/Desktop/Floppy Files"
> 
> The space in a filename is confusing the program
> 
> D.
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