Trick to ignore space in folder name

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello All,

I am getting error while passing a folder name that has space to the cmd line argument.

sh log_delete2.sh "/home/kumarpua/TESTARTIFACTS/atf-chix/ATF-subversion-dev/ssenglogs/A RM"

log_delete2.sh: line 17: cd: /home/kumarpua/TESTARTIFACTS/atf-chix/ATF-subversion-dev/ssenglogs/A: No such file or directory
expr: non-numeric argument

ls: /home/kumarpua/TESTARTIFACTS/atf-chix/ATF-subversion-dev/ssenglogs/A: No such file or directory

Can any one pls suggest how to ignore the space in folder name.....

Regards,
Pulkit

2

It might be that you need to replace the existing code in order to take care of this problem. Can you show the code that is doing this.

3

I believe that this is a bug in log_delete2.sh. Very often bug: you should always use apostrophes: "string with spaces, $HOME"=1 argument that is parsed, '$HOME xxx'=1 argument that is not parsed, string xxx $HOME=3 arguments that are parsed.
Most of the scripts I have seen have problems with such names/params :slight_smile:
Do not try to pass directories like '/home/user/ directory with space as first character' - such scripts tends to do:
rm -rf $param
so it runs as
rm -rf /home/user
rm -rf directory
rm -rf with
rm -rf space
rm -rf as
rm -rf first
rm -rf character

4

Hello,

Please do like this :
sh log_delete2.sh "/home/kumarpua/TESTARTIFACTS/atf-chix/ATF-subversion-dev/ssenglogs/A RM"

Inside the script you have to do like this

cd "$1"

If the directory /home/kumarpua/TESTARTIFACTS/atf-chix/ATF-subversion-dev/ssenglogs/A RM is exists then it will work.

Regards,
Thobias