Spaces with bash

Question

I'm trying to make an export of a folder with spaces... but I did'nt find out how...

:~> export PATH="/home/solo/VirtualBox\ VMs/"
:~> cd $PATH
bash: cd: /home/solo/VirtualBox\: No existe el fichero o el directorio

I thought that with a "\" I could solve but did not.

Answer 1

You've already escaped it with the quotes; there's no need for a backslash, just don't forget the quotes each time. But FFS, don't use $PATH; that env var is important.