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Question How Do I rename a unix file contianing spacing?
How can I rename a unix file that has a spacing in in the charactyers? For example, I want to rename or move a file called "My OldFile.txt" to "MyNewFile.txt" or "My_New_file.txt"

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mv "My OldFile.txt" MyNewFile.txt
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If I understand your question correctly it would be:
mv My\ File\ .txt My_File.txt

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Now tell me how to create a file with spacing..

If i give

touch my old.txt or
vi my old.txt

then, the shell interprets it as two seperate files.. one as my and the other as old.txt....


How can one succeed in creating a file with spaces????


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Exactly the same

vi "my file"
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Working fine Peter....


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Nisha,

U can also do

vi my\ old.txt

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