opening a directory with single quote in its name

Question

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

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

suround the directory name with quotes

$ cd "02. Setting Up 'Shop"

or mask the 'special' characters

$ cd 02.\ Settings\ Up\ \'Shop

Comments

[HikeMike]

You forgot to tell us what OS you're using.

[coure2011]

remotely accessing CentOS from Mac terminal

[coure2011]

-bash: 33m]ommand not found -bash: 31m: command not found

[daniel kullmann]

a dot doesn't have to be escaped.

[boretom]

@danielkullmann: Of course you're right, sill me :)