<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="julia&gt; versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.3.0
Commit 46ce4d7933 (2019-11-26 06:09 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0.0)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4250U CPU @ 1.30GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.1 (ORCJIT, haswell)
"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">julia&gt; versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.3.0
Commit 46ce4d7933 (2019-11-26 06:09 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0.0)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4250U CPU @ 1.30GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.1 (ORCJIT, haswell)

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<p dir="auto">It appears that cd() and at least a few other file handling functions can't handle that directories have spaces in their names.</p>
<p dir="auto">The problem exists on the build above (on MacOS) and I have earlier today experienced equal behaviour on Windows 10 x64;</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="julia&gt; cd(&quot;/Users/user/Virtualbox\ Shared\ Folder/&quot;)
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at REPL[7]:0"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">julia&gt; cd("/Users/user/Virtualbox\ Shared\ Folder/")
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at REPL[7]:0
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<p dir="auto">This may be an issue with how the tab-completion escapes the directory name, but...the escaping looks good to me. And it is identical to how Bash would have done it in a shell.</p>
<p dir="auto">Autocomplete in the REPL add <code class="notranslate">\</code> when needed to file names but julia1.0 functions do not like them</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="julia&gt; DelimitedFiles.readdlm(&quot;a\ a.txt&quot;)
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">julia&gt; DelimitedFiles.readdlm("a\ a.txt")
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence
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<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="julia&gt; DelimitedFiles.readdlm(&quot;a a.txt&quot;)"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">julia&gt; DelimitedFiles.readdlm("a a.txt")
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<p dir="auto">works</p>