How to extract the directory name from a variable?

Question

bash

Is it possible to specify the name of a directory in bash , through a variable ?
More or less like this:

Answer 1

Of course. True, I would do like this: What's the difference? If you have the line "mum ate the frame masha washed rum" in your name, then in your version the command cd /Volumes/mum will be executed, which is hardly what was intended :)
cd "/Volumes/$name"

Answer 2

1. why not try before asking a question? It would take much less time than asking a question.
2. yes, you can.