How to specify ELF shared objects in `LD_PRELOAD` if their path contains a space character?

Paths to ELF shared objects in LD_PRELOAD cannot contain spaces, as space is one of the two list separators, and it cannot be escaped: > LD_PRELOAD > > A list of additional, user-specified, ELF shared objects to be loaded before all others. This feature can be used to selectively override functions in other shared objects. > > The items of the list can be separated by spaces or colons, and there is no support for escaping either separator. Source: https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages/ld.so.8.en.html So assuming I want to execute program myprogram and preload an ELF shared object from /path/with space/lib/libsomething.so, then this doesn't work: $ LD_PRELOAD="/path/with space/lib/libsomething.so" myprogram ERROR: ld.so: object '/path/with' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'space/lib/libsomething.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored. ...