Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / July 2005

with spaces in the name replaced with "\ " (to "escape" the space
character so that the command doesn't think it's dealing with two
variables, which are separated by a space character on the Unix command
line), so "External HD" should be typed as "External\ HD" - to make this
easier, you can use auto-complete by pressing the <tab> key after
starting to type unique parts of the item's path, so you could do this...

cd /Vo<tab>Ex<tab>

and it will autcomplete to

cd /Volumes/External\ HD

(assuming you don't have another directory that starts with "Vo" in your
HD, and you don't have another disk that starts with "Ex" - just type
enough to make what you've typed uniwie to the file/folder/disk you
want).

And, to round off this tip, you can drag the disk into the command line,
so type "cd " (with the space) and then drag the disk into the Terminal
window and it will automatically insert the path to the disk you
dragged. This works with other items, as well, but it's up to you to
make sure the item is of the right sort - if you drag a file when doing
a "cd", for example, the command will return an error, just as if you'd
typed in a path to a file in a "cd" command.

Hope that's of use

Sean

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