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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Compiling fails due to space in path to home folder Post 302594563 by tdgrant1 on Tuesday 31st of January 2012 04:27:54 PM
Old 01-31-2012
Compiling fails due to space in path to home folder
I seem to have issues compiling software and I think I've narrowed it down to something having to do with having a space in the path name to my Home folder (which contains "Macintosh HD"). The reason I think this is shown here:

Code:
[/]$ echo $HOME
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Tom
[/]$ cd $HOME
-sh: cd: /Volumes/Macintosh: No such file or directory
[/]$ cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/Tom
[/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Tom]$

In other words simply changing directory to my Home folder using the environment variable $HOME fails, but when escaping the space in "Macintosh HD" it seems to work. One weird thing, however, is that the "~" shortcut seems to work fine, i.e.

Code:
[/]$ echo ~
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Tom
[/]$ cd ~
[/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Tom]$

so I'm not entirely sure if the space is a problem. Are $HOME and "~" handled the same way?

Most importantly, does anyone have a workaround for this? I'd rather not change my home directory to something without a space because doing this causes several things to break apparently, including stopping me from being able to log in to my computer.

Any thoughts or solutions would be helpful.

Thanks,
Tom
 

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