The semi-colon is used as a command separator so yes it is trying to
look at registrations as a separate command.  Spaces and special
characters have to be dealt with from the command line in one of two
ways.  Either use the backslash escape special character such as 
\;

or enclose everything in single quotes 
';registrations'  

the exception for single quotes is the backslash.  If you need either
singe quotes or a backslash within your single quoted text you use a
backslash to do it.  
'this is a back slashe in a quote \\' 
'this quote\'s extra quote is an apostrophe

Hope this helps,
-Bill W
TD-4242
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 15:05 -0700, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> Hello, Loged in as root, I do a listing of a directory that contains 
> several sub directories and get a result like this:
> 
> drwx------    5 rweissne rweissne     4096 Apr 12 10:00 ;registrations
> 
> Notice that the directory name starts with the character ;
> 
> I then try to enter the directory  with:
> 
> cd ;registrations
> 
> I get the following:
> 
> bash: registrations: command not found
> 
> What does the ; character do? It seems to me that after the ; the rest 
> of the directory name, registrations, is seen as a command.
> 
> Any ideas how I can enter this directory
> 
> Charlie
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