Re: Stupid spaces

[Chris DiTrani <cditrani@livedata.com>]

file_path='test foo'
cd "$file_path"

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:29, calin wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I know the following question is a dumb one, but I've tried to make a
> script working and I'm stuck.
> 
> I'll try to isolate the problem as follows.
> 
> I have a script which at some moment during the execution, needs to cd.
> So I assumed that the following would work:
> 
> 
> file_path='"/some/where/Test Folder/"'
> echo "$file_path"
> cd "$file_path"
> 
> But surprise: it didn't. Every time I try to run it it gives me
> something like:
> 
> 
> $ ./cding.sh
> "/some/where/Test Folder/"
> ./cding.sh: line 5: cd: "/some/where/Test Folder/": No such file or
> directory
> $
> 
> although the Test Folder exist, is in the right path (/some/where/Test
> Folder) and it's permissions are 777.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Calin Cosma
> 
> 
> 
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