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Space character in terminal

Asked by Emad William

If there's a folder named "My Projects", and I typed in the terminal "cd My Projects", it tells me that the folder "My" couldn't be found.
Is that because the terminal thinks the the space is between the path and the arguments of "cd" ?
Please tell me how to use paths in the terminal that contains space.

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Best Zombie (initramfs) said : 		#1

Emad William,

cd My\ Projects should work.
My + Tab should work too. . .

With Regards,
Zombie.

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Emad William (emadwilliam) said : 		#2

Thanks Zombie, that solved my question.

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Thinboy00 (thinboy00) said : 		#3

you could also do cd "My Projects" or even cd 'My Projects' I recommend using single quotes when possible, unless you need a backslash escape or a single quote in the path name.