Opening &PH& Directory

sri75 · Post by **sri75** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:34 pm

HI ,

I would like to open &PH& directory and see all the files in it.But I am not able to open it.Can you please tell me how to open it.I tried to open it with 'cd &PH&'

Thanks

gateleys · Post by **gateleys** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:38 pm

sri75 wrote:I tried to open it with 'cd &PH&'

cd => change directory

How about ls?

sri75 · Post by **sri75** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:43 pm

gateleys ,Thanks for your reply.

I tried with 'ls' too.but it gave all the files that are under projects folder, that included &PH& directory too.

Thanks

gateleys · Post by **gateleys** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:46 pm

sri75 wrote: I tried with 'ls' too.but it gave all the files that are under projects folder, that included &PH& directory too.

Good! Now, if you do a list on the &PH& folder, it will list all the files and directories within it. See!!!

throbinson · Post by **throbinson** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:51 pm

Escape the ampersands.

cd \&PH\&

sri75 · Post by **sri75** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:57 pm

Thanks throbinson.It worked perfect

Now I am able to open the directory.

Thanks

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:20 pm

& is a reserved character in unix, it runs a command in the background. This particular annoying directory needs special handling.

From now on, just use quotes around it: cd "&PH&"

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:12 pm

You probably need "hard quotes" (single quotes).
You don't need to cd.

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ls -lrt '&PH&'

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