MisBehaving Terminal...

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Hey,

I have a Folder Called “ISO’s” in my home folder and i cant access in from the terminal :S when i do “cd ISO’s” i get this:-

instead of changing dir to ISO’s it goes onto the next line and shows a “>” no commands (whoami etc) work untill i ctrl+c!

I know i can just rename the Folder (well… not at the moment as i have stuff d/l into it) but im wondering why i cant use any folder name with a > ’ < in it in the terminal :S

PS i was trying to tree my ISO’s folder (apt-get install tree, i couldnt find any standard thing which did it in ubuntu) but instead i have to tree my home dir and cut and paste it out :stuck_out_tongue:

Here’s how my 100% bandwidth usage is going! just 2 ISO’s and MD5 hashes left to get! (and check) [NOTE: how do you remove uploaded files? lol just ignore map.txt, map2.txt is the right one!]

map2.txt (7.73 KB)

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I think the ’ character signals bash to start a sort of input buffer until it reads an EOF character which is produced by CTRL-D (CTRL-C exits).

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hmm, better remember not to use it in file names then :smiley:

They work around i used was ISO*s, but that would also tree a folder called ISOes etc

50 mins till i have the complete collection…

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Try it this way: cd "ISO'S"

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That does indeed work, i’ll still avoid > ’ < tho as its just more work…

thanks