Unix command to escape spaces

Question

I am new to shell script. Can someone help me with command to escape the space with \"\\ \". I have a variable FILE_PATH=/path/to my/text file ,
I want to escape the spa

Answer 1

Use quotes to preserve the SPACE character

tr is used only for replacing individual characters 1 for 1. Seems to be that you need sed.

echo $FILE_PATH | sed -e 's/ /\\ /'

seems to do what you want.