ssh directory browsing

Try putting a "\" before the space (without the quotes).

Example:
/User/name/music/the\ band

 

To add to that, you can also enclose the directory name in quotes. Though, what I like best is typing a small amount of the name and hitting tab. The shell will automatically complete enough of it to be unique. If several files/directories exist with the same letters at the start, it will only complete up to that point. If you hit tab again, it will list all possibilities. And as soon as you type enough to uniquely identify one of them, the next tab will complete the whole thing, including any necessary backslashes.

The tab character is one of my best friends -- saves me thousands of unnecessary keystrokes!