[kwlug-disc] Renaming a directory containing double quotation marks

Bob Jonkman bjonkman at sobac.com
Wed Sep 18 13:58:11 EDT 2013


With a file called old"name this works for me:

  mv old\"name newname

I'm using bash as the command shell

--Bob.



On 13-09-18 01:49 PM, John Driezen wrote:
> How do I rename a directory that contains double quotation marks from
> the command line?  I'm using a bash shell.
> 
> John Driezen
> jdriezen at sympatico.ca
> 
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