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Old 12-03-2012
File paths with spaces in a variable

Hi all my very first post so go easy on me!!

I am trying to build a very simple script to list a file path with spaces in. But I can't get around this problem. My script is as follows:

#!/bin/bash
X="/Library/Users/Application\ Support/"

LS="ls"
AL="-al"

$LS $AL $X

The response I get is this

ls: /Library/Application\: No such file or directory
ls: Support/: No such file or directory

I know this is a problem with the space in the file path but I thought the "" would pass to the commandline with no issues but I am wrong.
 
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