spaces in $PATH

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Tue May 26 02:06:00 GMT 2009


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> newsletter wrote:
>> Hi all
>> I am trying to configure the $PATH variable in cygwin and am having 
>> problems getting a path to program files to work. It keeps saying 
>> "Program: No such file or directory". I've tried to put quotes (both 
>> single and double) around the offending line but it doesn't work as 
>> well.
>>
>> what is the correct syntax?
>
> Depends on what you're trying to do.  This is an example of me launching
> 'ALZip' from 'bash':
>
> #echo $PATH
> /usr/bin:/WINDOWS/system32:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/Program 
> Files/Intel/DMIX:/Program Files/ESTsoft/ALZip/:/Program Files/ATI 
> Technologies/ATI.ACE/:/Program Files/Microsoft SQL 
> Server/90/Tools/binn/:/Interix/common/:/Program 
> Files/ESTsoft/ALZip/:/home/lhall/bin
>
> #ls /Program\ Files/ESTsoft/ALZip/
> ALBanner.dll    AZCTM.dll       Language/       unacev2.dll
> ALTip.dll       AZCTM64.dll     Newzip.dat      unins000.dat
> ALTip.ini       AZMain.dll      alupdate.exe    unins000.exe
> ALZEXE.DAT      Az7z.dll        alupopt.dll     unrar4.dll
> ALZip.exe       AzCDImage.dll   alzip.chm
> ALZipIcon.dll   CrashRpt_D.dll  readme.txt
>
> #ALZip
>
ummm found the problem was between the chair and the keyboard 8-)


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