RE: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Reid Thompson wrote:

> Ashish.Srivastava@XXX.XX.XXX wrote:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > Hi,
> >    I have a JDK installed in c:\Java SDK directory. I am
> > trying to export the JAVA_HOME in cygwin but it seems is crancking
> > out on the space.
> >
> > export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java\\ SDK
> > export JAVA_HOME=c:\"Java SDK\" and,
> > export JAVA_HOME="c:/Java SDK/"
> >
> > all fails. Please help!
> >
> > Thnx,
> > -Ashish
>
> try
> ln -s C:\\Java\ SDK /java
>
> export JAVA_HOME=/java

Ain't gonna work (and neither will mounts).  JAVA_HOME is usually used by
non-Cygwin programs, and those don't know about either symlinks or mounts.
Junctions (directory reparse points) do work, however.
	Igor
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