Directories with spaces

[Matthew Walker]

I have a number of directories with spaces in their names.  I wanted to 
write a script that steps through them but found it was difficult to cd 
to dirs with spaces.  Would someone mind giving me a few suggestions?

$ mkdir "My Directory With Spaces"
$ cd "My Directory With Spaces"   # works fine
$ cd ..
$ a="cd \"My Directory With Spaces\""
$ echo $a
cd "My Directory With Spaces"
$ $($a)                           # I thought this would work
bash: cd: "My: No such file or directory


Thanks in advance,

Matthew