Re: Directories with spaces

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Matthew Walker wrote:

> I have a number of directories with spaces in their names.  I wanted to write 
> a script that steps through them but found it was difficult to cd to dirs 
> with spaces.  Would someone mind giving me a few suggestions?
>
> $ mkdir "My Directory With Spaces"
> $ cd "My Directory With Spaces"   # works fine
> $ cd ..
> $ a="cd \"My Directory With Spaces\""
> $ echo $a
> cd "My Directory With Spaces"
> $ $($a)                           # I thought this would work
> bash: cd: "My: No such file or directory

eval "$a"

  Or:

a="My Directory With Spaces"
cd "$a"


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