Bash — Escape spaces in results of `pwd` command

Just wrap the `pwd` in quotes to escape spaces. It’s just literally wrapping the output of pwd in a string “”.

$ > scp `pwd`/my_file.png foo # reads pwd spaces as argument separator
$ > scp "`pwd`"/my_file.png foo

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stupidfool says:

May 23, 2016 at 10:29 pm

~/playground/space in foldername$ `pwd`
-bash: /Users//playground/space: No such file or directory

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1. Yuji says:
  
  May 23, 2016 at 11:13 pm
  
  They key part of this post is wrapping the command in quotes.
  
  Just executing `pwd` is the same as typing the output of that command, so
  
  ~/playground/space in foldername$ `pwd`
  
  Is the same as typing
  ~/playground/space in foldername
  
  Which will result in “no such file or directory”, wheras wrapping in quotes will result in the command w/ spaces:
  
  “`pwd`”
  
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