Friday 15 March 2019

bash - Spaces in Linux environmental variables?

Given directory: /media/foo/can haz/bar, I have tried editing bash.rc with:


export Foo=/media/foo/can haz/bar
export Foo=/media/foo/can\ haz/bar
export Foo='/media/foo/can haz/bar'
export Foo="/media/foo/can haz/bar"
export Foo='"/media/foo/can haz/bar"'
export Foo="'/media/foo/can haz/bar'"

Each time though, I couldn't get something like the following to work (without using "$Foo"):


cd $Foo

How do I set an environmental variable with spaces on a Linux system?

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