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nano package

Problem Opening

Asked by Allen

Hi, I seem to be at a road block here. In the terminal, I try to open up a folder in nano,like this

allen@allen-laptop:~$ nano Phone Numbers

But nothing shows up in nano, just blank,but I can open it up manually just fine from my Home Folder.Yes, there is the space between Phone and Numbers, I think that's what's throwing me off, but I don't know how to open it in nano.Ideas? Thanks!

This is how the folder Appears in the Terminal:

allen@allen-laptop:~$ ls
Desktop HTML Music XHTML Pictures Python
Documents C+ Project Public Videos
Downloads Phone Numbers Templates Windows7BootLoader

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kpk187 (kpk187) said : 		#1

Try:

nano Phone\ Numbers

If you are having trouble figuring out how a file name should be typed in the terminal, you can drag and drop the file in from the Home Folder. In addition, if you type part of the file name:

nano Phon

then press TAB you should get auto completion.

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Allen (allenlitchfield) said : 		#2

yup, they both worked, now I know the little TAB trick, thanks!