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matchdav
matchdav

Reputation: 715

Spaces in bash variable path name

What's the proper way to do this?

$ export SUBLPKG=~/"Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages"
$ cd $SUBLPKG
-bash: cd: /Users/$ME/Library/Application: No such file or directory


$ export SUBLPKG=~/"Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages"
$echo $SUBLPKG
/Users/$ME/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages
$ cd $SUBLPKG
-bash: cd: /Users/$ME/Library/Application\: No such file or directory

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4075

Answers (1)

devnull
devnull

Reputation: 123678

The proper way is to quote the variable while expanding else word splitting would happen on whitespaces:

export SUBLPKG=~/"Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages"
cd "$SUBLPKG"

You might also want to refer to Word Splitting in the manual.

Also refer to Word Splitting here.

Upvotes: 7

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