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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [bash] cd: too many arguments Post 303029643 by soichiro on Wednesday 30th of January 2019 03:35:06 AM
Old 01-30-2019
[bash] cd: too many arguments
Hello everyone,

Could someone please explain to me why I get cd: too many arguments when I select a dir that has one or more spaces in the name?

This is the code

Code:
#!/bin/bash

tmp_loc=$(zenity --file-selection --directory)
if [[ -z $tmp_loc && ${tmp_loc+x} ]]; then
  exit 0
else
  location=${tmp_loc// /\\ }  # this adds backslashes if need it
  echo $location                   
  cd $location      # cd: too many arguments if the dir's name has spaces
 fi

Thank you in advance.
Last edited by soichiro; 01-30-2019 at 04:40 AM..
 

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