title: Unix command to escape spaces
body: <p>I am new to shell script. Can someone help me with command to escape the space with "\ ".
  I have a variable FILE_PATH=/path/to my/text file ,<br>
  I want to escape the spaces alone
  FILE_PATH=/path/to\ my/text\ file</p>
  
  <p>I tried with tr -s command but it doesnt help</p>
  
  <p>FILE_PATH=<code>echo FILE_PATH | tr -s " " "\\ "</code></p>
  
  <p>Can somebody suggest the right command !!</p>