Shell Scripting Using a variable to define a path

Question

My problem lies with my confusion with shell variables   To my understanding  variables allow me to store a value  String in this case  and to call it later in my code   So if I wanted to have a variable that holds the path to some set of scripts  I could ideally just store it like this   SPTH     home Foo Documents Programs ShellScripts Butler     Later on in the script   cd  SPTH   script1   What I m trying to do  with probably the wrong syntax  is to set the path to variable SPTH   Then I use cd with argument  SPTH   Ideally this would allow me to run the file there without typing in the path   However it doesn t work   The  SPTH is ignored and the result is as if cd was used alone   So what am I doing wrong  And what would be a way to do this

User · Accepted Answer

Don t use spaces      Incorrect   SPTH     home Foo Documents Programs ShellScripts Butler     Correct   SPTH   home Foo Documents Programs ShellScripts Butler

User · Answer

To add to the above correct answer  - For my case in shell  this code worked  working on sqoop  ROOT PATH  quot path to the folder quot  --options-file   ROOT PATH query txt

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