moving a file with spaces in name

问题

I have a file in unix with name as "this is my file.xls"

I want to move it from one folder to other. I wrote the below lines:

fileName="this is my file"
myDate=20121125

mv $FIRST_DIR/"${fileName}.xls" $SECOND_DIR/"${fileName}_${myDate}.xls"

However, this is not working. I am getting error as "file.xls is not a directory"

What is the correct way to do this?

Thanks for reading!

回答1:

Use escape characters for spaces. So change the variable fileName to "this\ is\ my\ file". This ensures that the shell will ignore the spaces and won't consider it as a delimiter.

回答2:

Use \ \ to put in white spaces. So

mv this\ \is\ \my\ \file this-is-my-file 

should work

回答3:

this should work mv this.is.my.file.xls Make sure you put a backlash in front of the dots

回答4:

In mac, you don't need to use symbol . Simply put the complete file name with space inside double quotes to open.

Like vim "file to open"

:)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11738484/moving-a-file-with-spaces-in-name