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>>alexho+(OP)
I never understood why this hasn't been modernized. The three-letter nearly-meaningless directory names seem so obsolete.

>>Freaky+v5
Unless your ssh'd into a machine, it's annoying to type long dir's. What's worse is compensating for spaces in filenames.

>>quacke+V7
Thats what tab completion is for.

>>freewo+68
Thank you freework, didn't know about that one (embarrassing as it is to admit).

Still sucks dealing with spaces when it comes to command processes like ffmpeg -i <no_tab>...but awesome for cd'ing or ls'ing!

>>quacke+G8
Just prefix the space with a backslash. Eg: ``$ ls /foo/bar/my\ directory/``. With that backslash in place, you can continue your tab-completion.

>>kanema+n9
Still, on some international keyboards, backspace is hard to reach, eg. on a German Mac keyboard, is it <alt><shift>7.

So don't put spaces in path names, it's a bitch to work with.

>>iSnow+Ma
You can quote the space:

    mkdir x\ y
    cd x' 'y

(or the entire part: cd 'x y')