Using Partial Quoting
Sometimes only part of an argument should be quoted. Suppose you want to list the contents of ~ann/Volume II, i.e., the Volume II directory under ann's account. You cannot leave the name unquoted because it contains a space, but you cannot quote the whole thing, either, because such quotes would prevent ~ann from being expanded properly:
%ls ~ann/Volume II
/usr/staff/ann/Volume not found II not found %ls "~ann /Volume II"
~ann /Volume II not found
Instead, quote the space with a backslash or use quote marks to quote part of the name. The following commands allow expansion of ~ann while preventing the space from acting as an argument separator:
%ls ~ann /Volume\ II
(or) %ls ~ann /'Volume II'
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