Understand the filesystem

Shell maps your Confluence site to a filesystem:

/ +
  +-- /<space1> +
  |             +-- /<page1> +
  |             |            +-- /<page1a>
  |             +-- /<page2>
  +-- /<space2> +
                +-- /<page1>

• The absolute path to <page1a> is /space1/page1/page1a.
• <space1> and <space2> are global or personal space names.
• <page1>, <page2>, and so on are page titles.
• / is the site root. Run ls there to list the spaces you can access. Archived spaces aren’t shown.

Quoting

If a space or page name contains spaces, enclose that part of the path in single quotation marks:

$ cd 'My space'
$ ls /'My space'/'Getting started'

You can combine a quoted name with the next part of the path:

$ ls 'sample pages'/child
$ touch ./'Weekly notes'

Quote only the path segment that contains spaces. touch './Weekly notes' treats ./Weekly notes as a single title, including the ./.

Titles that contain /

To treat / as part of a page title instead of a path separator, enclose the full title in single quotation marks:

$ cd 'Release notes (2024/11)'
$ pwd
/SpaceName/Release notes (2024/11)

Without quotation marks, / splits the path, so cd can’t find the page.