[SOLVED] Moving, copying with spaced file names why not working

[coldblue]

Hi everybody

Here is what i am trying to do

yasarcay(at)skynet:~$ cd work
yasarcay(at)skynet:~/work$ ls
Move and Copy Files in Linux at the Command Line.odt dir2 dir32 kubuntu linux commnads.odt
yasarcay(at)skynet:~/work$ mv linux commnads.odt linux commands.odt
mv: target `commands.odt' is not a directory
yasarcay(at)skynet:~/work$ mv linux commnads.odt dir2
mv: cannot stat `linux': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `commnads.odt': No such file or directory
yasarcay(at)skynet:~/work$ cp linux commnads.odt dir2
cp: cannot stat `linux': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `commnads.odt': No such file or directory
yasarcay(at)skynet:~/work$

Where am i doing a mistake. Please help...

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Spaces in filename is creating problem and you should use underscore ( _ ) instead of space.
Use Escape symbol \ or hit TAB key to auto-complete filename.

yasarcay(at)skynet:~/work$ cp linux\ commnads.odt dir2

Or

yasarcay(at)skynet:~/work$ cp linux<hit TAB key>

I would suggest you to visit linuxcommand.org

[coldblue]

Thank you very much. it has worked.

[Syndacate]

Thank you very much. it has worked.

While the above method works, and is correct, you'll be hard pressed to fully escape spaces.

For that reason, I mention that you can also use double quotes, this will work too, for a file named "Linux Commands.odt" (no quotes):

mv "Linux Commands.odt" ~/Desktop

Though since we're all using Bash, let's just go with the second part mentioned by devils and tab complete the **** out of any path .

[coldblue]

@ Syndacate

Thanks a lot.