Re: Spaces in Environment Variables

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Jesse Hogan wrote:

> $ PF="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files"
> $ export PF
> $ cd $PF
> : cd: /cygdrive/c/Program\: No such file or directory
> $ ls $PF
> ls: /cygdrive/c/Program\: No such file or directory
> ls: Files: No such file or directory

You are simultaneously overquoting and underquoting.  When you assign a
value to PF you need to use either quotes or backslash-escapes, but not
both.  When you 'cd' you need to quote the argument if it contains
spaces.

$ export PF="/cygdrive/c/Program Files"
$ cd "$PF"

Brian

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