Re: cd to folder with spaces - in a script
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Michael Casey
<michaelcasey73(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How can I cd into a dir, when it contains spaces, and I need to use
it in a
script?
the directory:
/home/user/this is a folder/something
normally I would use:
cd /home/user/this\ is\ a\ folder/something/
but in a script I cant just add the "\"
like:
find . -type d | while read FOLDER; do cd $FOLDER; done
$ No such file or directory
the problem is, that there would be more "special chars" then spaces,
"sed"
them all? :D
Had the exact same problem, using cd "$FOLDER", i.e., adding the
double quotes around the $FOLDER, solved it for me.
Peter