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Re: Exporting variables containing white space
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Exporting variables containing white space |
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Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:05:13 -0400 |
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Raphael Summers <raphael@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> export MYMUSIC=/mnt/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings/Administrator/My\
> Documents/My\ Music
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> On attempting to cd to $MYMUSIC, it complains that there does not
> exist a directory /mnt/windows/Documents\
Since the variable's value contains whitespace, you must quote the
variable expansion to avoid word splitting:
cd "$MYMUSIC"
paul