I'm having fun with Git

Question

I've just started the Git basics course. I'm having a bit of fun drawing on what I learned from the Console Basics course to Git.
I see some of the commands are similar to that used on the Treehouse Console.  Cool!
I've already downloaded Git and it's integrated itself into my system nicely.  But I'm hitting a bit of a block moving around my system in the Bash terminal.
If I remember rightly, the course notes on the video tell us that we need to use the

cd foldername

to change your location to that directory.  But what if that folder name has more than one word.  like "digital medial" for example.
I type that in and I get a response like this

sh: cd: digital:  directory does not exist

Similarly if I want to delete a folder from my space I type... for example... 
```
rm folderName
```
And instead I get this
```
rm:  'foldername' is a directory.  
```
This is the command that allows to delete files and folders right?  What am I missing?
Thanks :-)

Ezekiel Elin · Accepted Answer

When you need to cd into a directory with a space or special character, you need to escape that character
```bash
ls
Example Directory With A Space
cd Example\ Directory\ With\ A\ Space
```
To delete folders, you can use rm -rf
```bash
ls
Example Directory
rm -rf Example\ Directory
```

James Barnett · Answer

The traditional solution to this is to use quotes or tab completion.
shell
mkdir "test dir"
cd "test dir"
rmdir "test dir"

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