Raspberry Pi OS • Re: Why is something as simple as starting a script so hard with Raspberry Pi OS?

In the script though, there is this command:

cd "home/desktop/directory with space"

Running "lxterminal -e /home/path/to/script.sh" in a terminal manually properly opens a new window, but the script fails cause it doesn't use the quotes in the above cd command, leading to errors on future lines.

I may be wrong, but I think that this is the relevant part of your problem: the quotes are ignored. They probably aren't ignored, but they may have already been parsed (used up) in a previous step in the startup procedure. One thing that you can try is to "escape" them:

cd "home/desktop/directory\ with\ space"

And check whether "home" is relative to your home directory, or is absolute. If absolute, you need 'cd "/home..."

Statistics: Posted by dr_bob — Tue Dec 23, 2025 4:50 pm

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