Accessing Directories From Terminal

[CamoAnimal]

Hey there,

So, incredibly simple problem that I am having a terrible time finding an answer to. I am trying to setup a program in Fedora to be redirected to a folder in my 64-bit Window$ partition, however I am not sure how to tell Terminal that it has a "(" and ")" in the path name.

The exact path in standard value is as follows:
"/media/12842F85842F6A85/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps"
What SHOULD this look like in Terminal?

[skolnick]

When you find a ( in a filename, replace it with \(. Same for ), \, * and most other special characters.

Example:

ls /media/12842F85842F6A85/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/steamapps

Notice how the spaces in the filename also require the preceding "\". This is called escaping. Another option, is enclose the whole filename between double quotes like this:

ls "/media/12842F85842F6A85/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps"

Yet another option, would be using the tab key to autocomplete. Type the first part of the filename and press "tab", it will autocomplete.

Regards.

[lewis41]

Have tried the back-slash, \, that escapes spaces and special characters?

Program\ Files\ \(x86\).

(skolnick was faster in replay)

Greetings

[CamoAnimal]

Thank you both very much!! This seems to have done the trick

[droidhacker]

Or you could just put quotations around the whole thing and not worry about it....