Is there a way to alias the command cd so that it protects the arguments?

Question

When I run

cd My folder

There is an error because I have not protected the string.

bash: cd: My: No such file or directory

But this works fine

cd "My folder"

Is there a way to redefine cd as an alias or a function so that it automatically protects all the following arguments as one single string?

This approach did not work, as I supposed it wouldn't:

cd () { cd "$*" ; }

Answer 1

You can do it, but only if your directory names don't contain several consecutive spaces, and only if they contain no shell special character other than spaces.

cd () { builtin cd "$*"; }

In practice, use completion: type cd My then press Tab. Bash will insert backslashes before special characters.