"cd" space in variable problem!

[dead76]

Hi every one!
I tried to save a long directory into an environmental variable to use it afterwards, but it seems that "cd" command lose its ability to read symbolic characters. For clarity, I put an screen-shot into an attachment. Thanks in advance.

[xenopeek]

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cd "$CPP"

That would be the way to do it normally. You should always quote variables used as command line arguments.

[Mute Ant]

You quote them...

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CPP="/home/mute/Desktop/C++/C++ Primer (beginner)"
mkdir -p "$CPP"
cd "$CPP"
pwd

/home/mute/Desktop/C++/C++ Primer (beginner)

[dead76]

Thank you guys! It worked. However I couldn't understand why the backslash didn't function as a "space character definer " in this case!!