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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


  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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