Spaces in bash variable path name

Question

What\'s the proper way to do this?

$ export SUBLPKG=~/\"Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages\"
$ cd $SUBLPKG
-bash: cd: /Users/$ME/Library/App         


        

Answer 1

The proper way is to quote the variable while expanding else word splitting would happen on whitespaces:

export SUBLPKG=~/"Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages"
cd "$SUBLPKG"

You might also want to refer to Word Splitting in the manual.

Also refer to Word Splitting here.