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[Jadar]

Hey guys. I am making a shell script to make a folder with space and a timestamp in its name. Then it changes to it. I do this like this:

date=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`
folder="/folder\ withspace-$date"
mkdir $folder
cd $folder

This would, to me, make sense to work. That is not the case here, because when I try this in Terminal to test I get this:

$ date=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`
$ folder="/folder\ withspace-$date"
$ sudo mkdir $folder
Password:
$ ls /
[other folders]
folder\

So I am really stumped because it also makes another directory in my current directory. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

[Airr]

Computer Geek, on Jun 11 2011, 08:39 PM, said:

Hey guys. I am making a shell script to make a folder with space and a timestamp in its name. Then it changes to it. I do this like this:

date=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`
   folder="/folder\ withspace-$date"
   mkdir $folder
   cd $folder

This would, to me, make sense to work. That is not the case here, because when I try this in Terminal to test I get this:

$ date=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`
   $ folder="/folder\ withspace-$date"
   $ sudo mkdir $folder
   Password:
   $ ls /
   [other folders]
   folder\

So I am really stumped because it also makes another directory in my current directory. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Try removing the "\" from "/folder\ withspace-$date", and encasing the $folder variable in quotes like "$folder".

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