Personally I have the following problem: I need in my script to store a path of an X directory in a variable. The big problem is that one of the folders in this path contains space in the name and for some reason when calling the variable it gives a conflict in the directory with space. Ex:
If I use it this way:
cd "/home/douglas/Minha Pasta"
But if so, it does not work:
home="/home/douglas/Minha Pasta"
cd $home
Does anyone know how I can resolve this?
Another option is to reference the variable in double quotation marks:
home="/home/douglas/Minha Pasta"
cd "$home"
According to documentation, 5.1 . Quoting Variables :
(In free translation)
When referring to a variable, it is often advisable to enclose its name in double quotation marks.
This prevents reinterpretation of all special characters within the quoted string - except
$,'(grave accent), and\(exhaust). [...]Use double quotes to avoid word separation. An argument quotation marks appears as a single word, even if it contains space separators.
You will need to escape the spaces for the command to work, when you use the cd $home command it is the same as: /home/douglas/Minha Pasta , it will read up to My and will not find the paste;
Make home="/home/douglas/Minha\ Pasta" , with \ before space.