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From: Chris DiTrani <cditrani@livedata.com>
Subject: Re: Stupid spaces
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:20:31 -0400
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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