About Spaces in the Command Line

Normally, whitespace separates parts of the command line.

Deal with extra spaces by either Quoting or Escaping

To quote: enlose argument in matching single or double-quotes: ls -l "My Big Picture.jpg"
To escape: preced the space with a blackslash: \

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