On Tue, Jun 03, 2014, James B. Byrne wrote: >Apologies for this OT post. I need some help debugging a bash script. It >just happens to be provided by Apple Inc. > >In a terminal session under OSX-10.9.3 I want do do this: > >cd ~/'Library/Application Support' Works for me on my OS X 10.8.5 Macbook Pro, xterm under xQuartz and under the Terminal.app. >Which is a simple enough request. However, OSX returns: cd >/users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory. The space >evidently acts as a delimiter to cd even though the path is quoted. > >However this: > >ls -l ~/'Library/Application Support' Perhaps you have 'cd' as an alias or a function which loses the quotes when passing to the real cd? Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. -- H. L. Mencken