directory names with spaces

Tom Duvall wrote on Oct 18, 2016

If I have a directory name with spaces, I can't seem to cd to it:

(in a shell)

mkdir "test 2"

ls

test 2

cd "test 2"

(ok)

(in iraf)

dir

test 2

cd "test 2"

ERROR: Cannot change directory to 'test 2'

called as ...

This seems to happen on both linux iraf and also on my mac. It's a particular problem on the mac

as I have an external disk with name "Seagate HD" which I can't seem to rename and have been

unable to get at in iraf. Any thoughts?

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Oct 18, 2016

Spaces in directory names aren't supported in IRAF. The usual workaround is to create a symlink without spaces (e.g. 'Seagate_HD' in your case) and use that in the path name.

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