How to input a path with a white space

Question

I have a main file which uses from the main I do a source  a properties file with variables pointing to paths    The properties file looks like this   TMP PATH   COMPANY someProject tmp OUTPUT PATH   COMPANY someProject output SOME PATH   COMPANY someProject some path   The problem is SOME PATH  I must use a path with spaces  I can t change it     I tried escaping the whitespace  with quotes  but no solution so far   I edited the paths  the problem with single quotes is I m using another variable  COMPANY in the path

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Use one of these threee variants   SOME PATH   mnt someProject some path  SOME PATH   mnt someProject some path  SOME PATH  mnt someProject some  path

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If the path in Ubuntu is   home ec2-user Name of Directory   then do this   1  Java s build properties file   build path   home ec2-user Name   of   Directory    Where    is equal to  home ec2-user  2  Jenkinsfile   build path buildprops  build path   echo  Build path    build path   sh  cd   build path

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If the file contains only parameter assignments  you can use the following loop in place of sourcing it     Instead of source file txt while IFS     read name value  do     declare   name  value  done  lt  file txt   This saves you having to quote anything in the file  and is also more secure  as you don t risk executing arbitrary code from file txt

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You can escape the  space  char by putting a   right before it

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I see Federico you ve found solution by yourself   The problem was in two places  Assignations need proper quoting  in your case  SOME PATH    COMPANY someProject some path    is one of possible solutions    But in shell those quotes are not stored in a memory   so when you want to use this variable  you need to quote it again  for example   NEW VAR   SOME PATH    because if not  space will be expanded to command level  like this   NEW VAR  YourCompany someProject some path   which is not what you want    For more info you can check out my article about it http   www cofoh com white-shell

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SOME PATH  mnt someProject some  path   should work

[shell] How to input a path with a white space?

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