Bash script to cd to directory with spaces in pathname

bash escaping

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.

bash escaping

I found the solution below on this page:

x="test\ me"  eval cd $x

A combination of \ in a double-quoted text constant and an eval before cd makes it work like a charm!

bash escaping

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"

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