Bash script to cd to directory with spaces in pathname

Question

I\'m using Bash on macOS X and I\'d like to create a simple executable script file that would change to another directory when it\'s run. However, the path to that director

Answer 1

When you double-quote a path, you're stopping the tilde expansion. So there are a few ways to do this:

cd ~/"My Code"
cd ~/'My Code'

The tilde is not quoted here, so tilde expansion will still be run.

cd "$HOME/My Code"

You can expand environment variables inside double-quoted strings; this is basically what the tilde expansion is doing

cd ~/My\ Code

You can also escape special characters (such as space) with a backslash.