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MegaArcon · Jun 28th, 2006, 2:15 PM

Ah ha! The quotes MegaArcon! The quotes! Why thank you Infinite Recursion. Looking at your code helped to spark what I was missing. Instead of subbing in "\ " I can just sub in " " and surround my variable with double quotes for the cd.

New code:

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#!/bin/bash
MYDIR=/users/cs/study/gordon/MyxyXYWhitespacEYXyxDocuments
MYDIR=${MYDIR//xyXYWhitespacEYXyx/ }
echo $MYDIR
cd "$MYDIR"
ls

New output:

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/users/cs/study/gordon/My Documents
Desktop    My Pictures        foo.doc

Ah, good ol' bash. Thanks again.

Jun 28th, 2006, 2:15 PM	#3
MegaArcon Programmer Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 66 Rep Power: 0	Ah ha! The quotes MegaArcon! The quotes! Why thank you Infinite Recursion. Looking at your code helped to spark what I was missing. Instead of subbing in "\ " I can just sub in " " and surround my variable with double quotes for the cd. New code: (Toggle Plain Text) #!/bin/bash MYDIR=/users/cs/study/gordon/MyxyXYWhitespacEYXyxDocuments MYDIR=${MYDIR//xyXYWhitespacEYXyx/ } echo $MYDIR cd "$MYDIR" ls #!/bin/bash MYDIR=/users/cs/study/gordon/MyxyXYWhitespacEYXyxDocuments MYDIR=${MYDIR//xyXYWhitespacEYXyx/ } echo $MYDIR cd "$MYDIR" ls New output: (Toggle Plain Text) /users/cs/study/gordon/My Documents Desktop My Pictures foo.doc /users/cs/study/gordon/My Documents Desktop My Pictures foo.doc Ah, good ol' bash. Thanks again. __________________ Isn't that just the way life goes? If it's worth doing, it's NP-Hard. Todd Wareham - Memorial University of Newfoundland