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Re: Spaces in file names
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Geordie McBain |
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Re: Spaces in file names |
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Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:47:21 +1100 |
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 11:50 +1300, Ana Rakonjac wrote:
> I'm sure this is a dumb newbie thing that comes up all the time, but I
> didn't see anything in the email archives, so here goes. When changing
> directories in Octave, how do you deal with spaces? I tried the
> standard Linux thing of using \ or putting the file name in quotes,
> but I still get error messages.
Try quoting the directory name; e.g.
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octave:1> mkdir ("a subdirectory")
ans = 1
octave:2> cd ("a subdirectory")
octave:3> pwd
ans = /tmp/a subdirectory
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Geordie McBain
www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/~mcbain