Unable to "cd" into a directory

[Atal]

So I have an Eee Pc laptop, and Im trying to install the Freeciv game. It tells me I have to "cd" into the top level directory before I do anything, so thats what I set out to do. I right click the extracted freeciv folder, click properties, and its directory is:

/home/user/My Documents/freeciv-2.1.5

so I open a terminal and type

cd /home/user/My Documents/freeciv-2.1.5

and it says it cant find the directory /home/user/My

so I delete the space, and this time it cant find MyDocuments

I decide to ls -a ~/ as i leared on a google hunt, and it shows me alot of files, including My Documents, and that and Trash are the only 2 without a "." infront, and indented below My documents it doesn't list the files that are in there according to the windows-like file manager, just some things that came pre installed like firefox and open office.

No matter what variation of My Documents I try, it wont listen

Help!

[bigtomrodney]

There's two ways to do it, you can either use quotes on the file path or you can use an escape character. Try this -

/home/user/My\ Documents/freeciv-2.1.5

The backslash tells bash to ignore the space as a delimiter (break) and to treat it as part of the string.

[Atal]

There's two ways to do it, you can either use quotes on the file path or you can use an escape character. Try this -

/home/user/My\ Documents/freeciv-2.1.5

The backslash tells bash to ignore the space as a delimiter (break) and to treat it as part of the string.

You have just made my day.

[kostasan]

Another way is write the first few letters of file or directory and then press the TAB. It will autocomplete the file or directory name, including the required backslashes.