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I am new to shell script. Can someone help me with command to escape the space with "\ ". I have a variable FILE_PATH=/path/to my/text file ,
I want to escape the spaces alone FILE_PATH=/path/to\ my/text\ file
I tried with tr -s command but it doesnt help
FILE_PATH=echo FILE_PATH | tr -s " " "\\ "
Can somebody suggest the right command !!
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Three Ways to Escape Spaces on WindowsBy enclosing the path (or parts of it) in double quotation marks ( ” ). By adding a caret character ( ^ ) before each space. (This only works in Command Prompt/CMD, and it doesn't seem to work with every command.) By adding a grave accent character ( ` ) before each space.
Summary. This article has discussed the problem of spaces in the Unix command line. Spaces are interpreted by the shell as special characters that separate command line arguments, so paths containing spaces are split into multiple parts when parsed by the shell.
If you are using bash, you can use its builtin printf's %q formatter (type help printf in bash):
FILENAME=$(printf %q "$FILENAME") This will not only quote space, but also all special characters for shell.
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