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I have to open a directory from terminal but the directory name contains a single quote, how Can I open it? Here is the name of the directory

02. Setting Up 'Shop
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You forgot to tell us what OS you're using. – Daniel Beck♦ Mar 19 '12 at 5:44
remotely accessing CentOS from Mac terminal – coure2011 Mar 19 '12 at 5:54

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Either escape spaces and the quote with \, or wrap the whole directory name in double quotes.

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suround the directory name with quotes

$ cd "02. Setting Up 'Shop"

or mask the 'special' characters

$ cd 02.\ Settings\ Up\ \'Shop
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-bash: 33m]ommand not found -bash: 31m: command not found – coure2011 Mar 19 '12 at 6:57
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a dot doesn't have to be escaped. – daniel kullmann Mar 19 '12 at 8:16
@coure2011: what exactly did you enter to get that error message back? Quoted string or using escape sequences ('\')? And you don't enter the '$' in the beginning. These commands are used to color the terminal output ([0;33m -> yellow, 0;31m -> red). You can try to set a minimalistic prompt, eg. export PS1='\h:\W \u\$'. Or to check your prompt: echo "$PS1" – boretom Mar 19 '12 at 9:43
@danielkullmann: Of course you're right, sill me :) – boretom Mar 19 '12 at 10:05

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