A strange path to the folder

Question

I have a folder called DAT on the desktop. I am not sure what I did the folder disappeared. Using find command find / -name DAT 2>/dev/null. This is the output /home/t-gang/ /DL4PL. I mean what is this path I could not even cd to. How can I find my folder?

Is DL4PL the folder renamed or the content of the folder (DAT)? — George Udosen, Sep 03 '17 at 06:08
That output doesn't make sense. find / -name DAT cannot produce matches that don't have the name DAT. Are you sure this is what the command output was? — David Foerster, Sep 11 '17 at 09:59

pa4080 · Answer 1 · 2017-09-03T13:25:04.270

To access path or file, which name contains special characters, we must quote these characters:

Single character's quotation with backslash, that will quote only the symbol next to it:
```
cd /home/t-gang/\ \ /DL4PL
```
or, when you are in the home directory:
```
~$ cd \ \ /DL4PL
```
Multiple character's quotation with single quotes^[1], that will quote the entire string:
```
cd '/home/t-gang/  /DL4PL'
```
or:
```
~$ cd '  /DL4PL'
```
or:
```
cd /home/t-gang/'  '/DL4PL
```
etc.

A strange path to the folder

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