UPDATE:
I have a gross solution that works, but I don't like it:
jjs> NANO_HOME = '"/ Users / XXXXXX / Desktop / TEST DIR"'; jjs> $ EXEC ('xargs ls', "$ {NANO_HOME}");
I use Java 8 Nashorn to create shell scripts and am having problems listing files in a directory if the directory name contains a space:
$ jjs -scripting
jjs> `ls /Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/`
TEST DIR
jjs> `ls /Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/TEST DIR`
jjs> $ERR
ls: /Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/TEST: No such file or directory
ls: DIR: No such file or directory
jjs> `ls "/Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/TEST DIR"`
jjs> $ERR
ls: "/Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/TEST: No such file or directory
ls: DIR": No such file or directory
jjs> `ls /Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/TEST\u0020DIR`
jjs> $ERR
ls: /Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/TEST: No such file or directory
ls: DIR: No such file or directory
jjs> `ls /Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/TEST\ DIR`
jjs> $ERR
ls: /Users/XXXXXX/Desktop/TEST: No such file or directory
ls: DIR: No such file or directory
I tried dozens of variations and nothing works ...
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