Bash script to cd to directory with spaces in pathname

When you double-quote a path, you're stopping the tilde expansion. So there are a few ways to do this:

cd ~/"My Code"
cd ~/'My Code'

The tilde is not quoted here, so tilde expansion will still be run.

cd "$HOME/My Code"

You can expand environment variables inside double-quoted strings; this is basically what the tilde expansion is doing

cd ~/My\ Code

You can also escape special characters (such as space) with a backslash.

I found the solution below on this page:

x="test\ me"  
eval cd $x

A combination of \ in a double-quoted text constant and an eval before cd makes it work like a charm!