TERMINAL MISTAKE
A journey through ubuntu by making mistakes using the terminal. 😉
All right folks. Do you know what time it is? Any idea?
You?
No?
How about you?
What? 9:27??
Nope…
It is time…
TO ROCK’N’ROLL!!! 😀
All right, that was lame. So let’s get started. This is not an official tutorial or anything about ubuntu. Just a poor guy here trying to put down what he is learning. 🙂
A 'psycho' path. 
but how do you open a folder in the terminal when it’s name has two parts (eg:new folder)? when ‘cd new folder’ is run, it says ‘directories new and folder are not found’..
A very nice feature of ubuntu is the tab completion.
To open the folder named ‘new folder’, just do:
cd ne (press tab key)
Pressing the tab key after typing “cd ne” will automatically complete the folder name for you. It will appear as:
cd new\ folder
Now if you press enter, you can access the folder.
Note that if a folder name consists of two parts with a space in between, the ‘\’ character should precede the space when using that folder name for any purpose.
It is highly recommended that you use underscores rather spaces for file and folder names.
Practice using tab completion. It’ll make things really quick. Just try hitting tab whenever you start typing something in the terminal and you’ll get the hang of it.
Hope this clears your doubt. 🙂
Gee.. pretty serious stuff here…
It is not serious at all! It is the funniest thing once you get into it. Try installing Ubuntu on your computer and do come back here.
Cheers!