How to change directory to the one which has multiple words

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How to change directory to the one which has multiple words separated by space(s) in it such as A- Test and This Is A Directory?

I tried:
cd /reference/A - Test/subFolder/This Is Another Folder

It appeared to me that the Linux does not recognize the separate the words in a subdirectory.

Thanks

Scott

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Hi
A forward slash eg;

cd ~/Local\\ Mail
cd ~/Local\\:Mail
cd ~/Local\\@Mail

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 11:55, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05
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A forward slash eg;[/color]

Well, actually that’s a backslash. Slashes (sometimes redundantly
called forward slashes) are the other way and delimit directories as you
know, and make sideways emoticons.

You could also quote the entire path:

cd ‘/path/with spaces/goes here/’

or most of it if you want to use special chars like the tilde:

cd ~/‘Local Mail’

Good luck.
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A forward slash eg;[/color]

Well, actually that’s a backslash. Slashes (sometimes redundantly
called forward slashes) are the other way and delimit directories as you
know, and make sideways emoticons.

You could also quote the entire path:

cd ‘/path/with spaces/goes here/’

or most of it if you want to use special chars like the tilde:

cd ~/‘Local Mail’

Good luck.
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Hi ab
pedant :wink: I just use tab completion these days…does it all for you…

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 10:36, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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pedant :wink: I just use tab completion these days…does it all for
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Yes, I am, and yes, it does. Long live the [Tab] key.
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What? Did you say something… there is all this gibberish on my screen? :wink:

And I’m just realizing… you probably don’t even see it quoted in my reply! Ha!