Mounting folders with spaces in their names
Jeremy C. Reed
reed at wcug.wwu.edu
Sat Mar 3 07:57:52 GMT 2001
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> I still have not been able to mount a folder called New Stuff in
> smbfs. I have tried:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //MP3/New Stuff
The mount command is seeing '//MP3/New' and 'Stuff' as two different
arguments.
Try using a backslash "\" to cause the space to be treated literally.
Or put the fullname within quotes (single or double). This should be
covered in your shell's man page (search for "escape" and/or "literal").
Jeremy C. Reed
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