Unable to Access a folder with "&" in the name

[mail2sanand]

Hi All,
Need some work-around for accessing a folder with an "&" in itz name. When I try accessing it, it takes only the first part of the folder_name and throws an error as shown below.

Ex : folder name: ./zigibae_&_NAME
ls ./zigibae_&_NAME will give the error
[1] 16690
/usr/local/bin/ls: cannot access ./zigibae_: No such file or directory
bash: _NAME: command not found.

Please help me in this.

Regards,
Anand.

[AutisticCuckoo]

The '&' character is a special character in many shells (meaning that the preceding command should run as a background process). Therefore you need to escape it by preceding it with a backslash, or enclose the whole string in single quotes:

ls ./zigibae_\&_NAME
or
ls './zigibae_&_NAME'

[mail2sanand]

Thanks for a very quick reply and for the solution.