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I tryed to add a symbolic link to my Windows folder I have Ntfs-3g properly installed. i remember a few years back there was never a problem with underscores for folder names. Here is my terminal output:
[krazybastid@krazy89345i753696 ~]$ ln -s /media/windows/Users/Rich's_Computer/Desktop/RadRich /home/krazybastid/Desktop/RadRich
>
I get that stupid > sign. What happened to using the underscore do I need to add some software to the shell? Is it a /bin/bash thing or something else? Well if anybody knows why that happened please help. Thanks.
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This is not due to the underscore sign, but due to the apostrophe (the part .../Rich's_Computer/...), which starts a quoted string, and which must be closed - and if you don't, it just assumes the quoted string (and thus your command) continues, even after a new line. This is indicated by the > sign.
If you <tab> to autocomplete, it should automatically escape special characters (like double and single quotes, brackets, spaces, etc.) with backslashes.
Otherwise, just enclose the entire path in double quotes:
ln -s "/media/windows/Users/Rich's_Computer/Desktop/RadRich" /home/krazybastid/Desktop/RadRich
EDIT
This is probably better placed in the Programming & Scripting subforum.
Last edited by ayekat (2015-06-06 23:49:49)
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Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...
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