Question

Hi i am having a really strange problem.
I am trying to run the following scrip as root:

loc=$(transmission-remote 192.168.1.74:9091 --auth=user:password -t$TORRENTID -i |sed -e '1d;$d;s/^ *//'|grep Location: |cut -s -d : -f2) 
cd "$loc"

But get the error messege :

cd: can't cd to  /leprechaun_tv-shows/download/

But i works if i create a new string:

hello= /leprechaun_tv-shows/download/ 
cd $hello

what am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Alternatively to Brian’s solution, if you still need $loc to be quoted in cd "$loc" because the path could contain any spaces, then just use sed 's/^ *//g' to trim any leading spaces in $loc, like this:

loc=$(transmission-remote 192.168.1.74:9091 --auth=user:password -t$TORRENTID -i |sed -e '1d;$d;s/^ *//'|grep Location: |cut -s -d : -f2 | sed 's/^ *//g') 
cd "$loc"