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Opening &PH& Directory
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:34 pm
by sri75
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
Re: Opening &PH& Directory
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:38 pm
by gateleys
sri75 wrote:I tried to open it with 'cd &PH&'
cd => change directory
How about
ls?
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:43 pm
by sri75
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
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:46 pm
by gateleys
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!!!
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:51 pm
by throbinson
Escape the ampersands.
cd \&PH\&
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:57 pm
by sri75
Thanks throbinson.It worked perfect
Now I am able to open the directory.
Thanks
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:20 pm
by kcbland
& 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&"
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:12 pm
by ray.wurlod
You probably need "hard quotes" (single quotes).
You don't need to cd.