RE: error in changing directory

Bård Skaflestad via Help-octave <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:34:33 +0000

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Hi,

Does your directory name, or any the name one of the intermediate directories, have spaces?  If so, you'll need to quote the pathname.

In other words, instead of

cd directory with/spaces

you'll need to write

cd "directory with/spaces"


Best Regards,

Bård Skaflestad

From: Help-octave <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rana Jamal
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 9:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: error in changing directory

Dears,

Kindly, help me with this error, I've been trying to change the directory on Octave for two days now but it keeps giving me the same error message (error: Invalid call to cd.) how can I fix it?

Regards,
Rana


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