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Re: Exporting variables containing white space
From: |
Chris F.A. Johnson |
Subject: |
Re: Exporting variables containing white space |
Date: |
24 Jun 2002 04:32:44 GMT |
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In article <m3u1o1wwsg.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Raphael Summers <raphael@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>> export MYMUSIC=/mnt/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings/Administrator/My\
>> Documents/My\ Music
>>
>> 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"
Or:
shopt -s cdable_vars
cd MYMUSIC
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