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Well I know how to open a folder in the terminal (using cd). But when the name of this folder have space? Ex: Eclipse Indigo. If you use cd Eclipse Indigo does not recognize

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You have to escape spaces in shell

So type cd Eclipse\ Indigo.

Also you can use quotes as well.

cd "Eclipse Indigo"
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You can type cd Eclipse and then hit the TAB key. Linux shell will autocomplete for you.

You can always type just some chars and then hit TAB, for every filename, folder name... whatever.

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Once you go into the directory of the folder, you can type Eclipse then press the Tab key on your keyboard.

cd Eclipse

Then press Tab

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