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

There's more to making a string safe than just escaping spaces, but you can escape the spaces with:

FILE_PATH=$( echo "$FILE_PATH" | sed 's/ /\\ /g' )