Never mind... I didn't read far enough down my inbox to see the SOLVED
section of the thread.
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
>> On Tue, June 3, 2014 13:03, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>> > Try
>> >
>> > cd "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/"
>> >
>> hll-m22:~ byrnejb$ cd "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/"
>> -bash: cd: /Users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory
>
> It looks to me like your quotes are getting lost somehow. I was able to use
> that very snippet on every Mac to which I have access.
>
> Obviously, $HOME was expanded correctly, so that's not a problem, but there's
> something really odd about the double-quotes not being honored.
>
> You might try the C-escape syntax (note prefixed $):
>
> cd $'/Users/byrnejb/Library/Application Support'
>
> Which $SHELL are you using?
>
> Does your shell rc file have any funky options set like rcquotes or
> nonstandard $IFS?
>
>
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