> > mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm fredbloggs.html > > > > the backslash character \ tells the shell that the next character is taken > > literally, not as the command line delimiter. > > > That worked - thanks Nick
It's worth noting that if you don't know which characters need to be escaped in a long filename (or you just can't be bothered :) the bash command auto-completion can also auto-complete filenames, and should do this for you. Just enter enough of the filename to be unique, hit your <tab> key, and bash will fill in the rest, including escape characters. Cheers, Gareth
