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

After struggling with the same problem, I tried two different solutions that works:

1. Use double quotes ("") with your variables.

Easiest way just double quotes your variables as pointed in previous answer:

cd "$yourPathWithBlankSpace"

2. Make use of eval.

According to this answer Unix command to escape spaces you can strip blank space then make use of eval, like this:

yourPathEscaped=$(printf %q "$yourPathWithBlankSpace")
eval cd $yourPathEscaped