Passing a path that contains spaces and parentheses to MATLAB from the terminal/bash -

Passing a path that contains spaces and parentheses to MATLAB from the terminal/bash -

i writing script have phone call matlab terminal , pass path argument contains lousy characters.

as expected, running problem when path contains spaces / parentheses. here minimal illustration illustrate issue:

matlabcmd="/applications/matlab_r2014b.app/bin/matlab -nodesktop -nosplash" run_dir="users/me/my directory spaces (and parentheses)/" $matlabcmd -r "addpath('${run_dir}'),exit"

some things have tried:

different combinations of double-quotes , single-quotes in commands above (this fails @ calling matlab).

using escape character run_dir="users/me/my directory\ with\ spaces\ \(and parentheses\)/" (this manages phone call matlab, matlab gets confused spaces... , addpath not work).

is there hope?

try

matlabcmd="/applications/matlab_r2014b.app/bin/matlab -nodesktop -nosplash" run_dir="users/me/my directory spaces (and parentheses)/" $matlabcmd -r "addpath(getenv('run_dir')),exit"

this prevent quoting/escaping nightmare , should lead desired effect.

bash matlab