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I managed to eliminate the leading spaces but that didn't resolve the issue.

(as shown in last line on first post)

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The file /Users/myuser/"/Application/Google Chrome.app" does not exist.

the problem seems to be that the open command instead of grabbing "/Application/Google Chrome.app" it starts from my user directory instead of the root one

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I even tried escaping spaces but didn't work either

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the file /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app doesn't exist

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