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I'm a psychology student at the VU Amsterdam. For my statistic courses this software called IBM SPSS statistics is required andabsolutly neccesary. I bought it of the official website and downloaded the .zip file. I've tried to open it with archivemanager and it was extracting something but in the end it always said:

Invalid url: '/home/mumen420/.cache/.fr-Q2kVc7/IBM' given, exiting

I've tried to use the unzip command and that always responds with

mumen420@Laptop-chan:~$ unzip IBM SPSS Statistics 24 Linux.zip
unzip:  cannot find or open IBM, IBM.zip or IBM.ZIP
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You should use \ for the escape character so that it knows there is a space where ever there is a space in the filename:

unzip IBM\ SPSS\ Statistics\ 24\ Linux.zip

Hope this helps!

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Besides from escaping, you can also quote the file name:

unzip "IBM SPSS Statistics 24 Linux.zip"

or

unzip 'IBM SPSS Statistics 24 Linux.zip'
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  • What is the difference between the two types of quoting?
    – pa4080
    Nov 16, 2017 at 16:04
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    @pa4080 variable expansion, command substitution, history expansion etc. take place in double quotes, but not in single quotes.
    – muru
    Nov 16, 2017 at 16:44
  • @pa4080 There is no difference at all in this exact case. ;P
    – dessert
    Nov 16, 2017 at 17:09
  • For sure in this exact case :)
    – pa4080
    Nov 16, 2017 at 19:05

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