Moving a file with unlikable characters

[Kenneth Brody]

On 12/9/2014 1:51 PM, Tracy LeBlanc wrote:
> Moving a file in Linux though filepro programming.
>
> mv /appl/forms/14-099-01 (2).jpg
> /appl/forms/Vehicles/237306/14-099-01/14-099-01_2.jpg
>
> I'm figuring out that if the file name has a blank or ( or ) Linux will not
> move the file name. Is there a way to make Linux read the actual file name
> and move/rename it? Am I missing something?

Simply put the filename in quotes:

     mv "/appl/forms/14-099-01 (2).jpg" "/appl/forms..."

(The same applies to Windows as well.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody