[CentOS] [OT] OSX-10.9.3 cd ~'/ problem with spaces'

Tue Jun 3 16:13:13 UTC 2014
SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:53 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>
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'
>
> 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.
>

I don't use, nor do I have a copy of OSX to test against, but my suggestion
may still apply.

Escape the space with a backslash.
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support


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