Mac Terminal, find and replace spaces command

Question

i'm writting a list of commands within an Atom plugin, one of the commands changes the terminals working directory.

However my issue is that if there is a space within the URL it will not work, it gets the directory location from the current working path, so I can't back slash the spaces manually.

You can set variables within the terminal, so is there a way to replace the spaces and back slash them within a terminal command?

** Edit: ** I get the following error code:

The files /Users/imac/Dropbox/_themev2-folder-1157, /Users/imac/WE, /Users/imac/FINANCE, /Users/imac/POOR, and /Users/imac/CREDIT do not exist.

This is the code, %(project.root) get's replaced with the project file path.

"command": [
  "pkill -9 gulp",
  "echo 'Quit: Gulp process terminated!'",
  "echo 'Start: New gulp process started, please wait...'",
  "open %(project.root)",
  "cd \"%(project.root)\"",
  "gulp"
]

** Edit 2 ** Quotes work now. Please add as an answer.

Put double quotes round the items, like this "url with spaces" and if that doesn't work, please show your code. — Mark Setchell
– Mark Setchell, Commented Nov 5, 2016 at 18:37

Mark Setchell · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-07 09:50:05Z

2

As an alternative to backslash escaping troublesome characters (such as spaces) you can enclose the entire path/parameter in double quotes, so you might use:

someCmd "/path with space/file with space.txt"

rather than

someCmd /path\ with\ space/file\ with\ space.txt

answered Nov 7, 2016 at 9:50

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