You have a filename with spaces in it. How do you copy it? How do you delete it?

What will be an ideal response?


You can escape the space with a backslash or quote the filename itself. You can then use cp to copy it and rm to remove it. For example:
cp file\ with\ spaces file-without-spaces
rm "file 2 with spaces"

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