From: Chris DiTrani <cditrani@livedata.com>
To: scohen <scohen@scohen.mysticjj.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stupid spaces
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:20:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090347631.19848.11.camel@chris.livedata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407201351430.27446-100000@open1.sa2.alabanza.com>
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:55, scohen wrote:
> Also,
>
> You are using way to many quotes. Just write this:
>
> file_path="/some/where/Test Folder/"
> echo $file_path
> cd $file_path
>
Did you actually try this? Doesn't work in my shell. I'm sure he tried
this first and only got more complicated when it failed to work.
In your above example $file_path is an unquoted string that turns into
two args, '/some/where/Test' and 'Folder/', when expanded and passed to
cd.
CD
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-20 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-19 13:29 Stupid spaces calin
2004-07-19 13:56 ` Chris DiTrani
2004-07-19 14:59 ` calin
2004-07-19 14:45 ` Scott Taylor
2004-07-19 14:52 ` Scott Taylor
2004-07-20 17:48 ` scohen
2004-07-20 18:22 ` Adam Lang
2004-07-20 17:55 ` scohen
2004-07-20 18:20 ` Chris DiTrani [this message]
2004-07-20 18:37 ` Adam Lang
2004-07-21 2:28 ` Glynn Clements
2004-07-21 7:11 ` calin
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2004-02-13 19:13 urgrue
2004-02-12 21:08 Scott Taylor
2004-02-12 21:23 ` Alok K. Dhir
2004-02-12 22:19 ` Scott Taylor
2004-02-12 21:39 ` Yu Chen
2004-02-12 22:18 ` Scott Taylor
2004-02-13 2:15 ` rich+ml
2004-02-13 4:07 ` Emiliano Castagnari
2004-02-13 16:56 ` Scott Taylor
2004-02-13 6:51 ` Agus Budy Wuysang
2004-02-13 17:15 ` Scott Taylor
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402121811240.3031-100000@deadrat.localdomai n>
2004-02-13 16:33 ` Scott Taylor
2004-02-13 17:26 ` rich+ml
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402130907370.3031-100000@deadrat.localdomai n>
2004-02-13 17:33 ` Scott Taylor
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