How to add space to mileage for $ PWD

Question

I want to use

ln -s $PWD ~/mylinkname

But the problem I am facing is that my current path has space (therefore ln cannot execute correctly).

I believe that the solution should be simple, but I searched, I can not find the answer.

Do you know how to solve this problem?

Many thanks.

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songyy Sep 2 '12 at 9:04

2 answers

ln -s "$PWD" "$HOME/mylinkname"

must do it.

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Lev levitsky Sep 2 '12 at 9:06

ronalchn · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-02T09:06:06+0000

If your argument has spaces, it will treat each space delimited part as a separate argument.

To prevent this, specify any arguments with spaces, for example:

ln -s "$PWD" "$HOME/my link name with spaces"

If the file name has quotes, you can also escape it with a backslash

ln -s "$PWD" "$HOME/my link name with spaces and this quote\""

Instead of $ HOME you can use:

ln -s "$PWD" ~/"my link name with spaces"