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From: Ashish.Srivastava@med.va.gov
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: How to set a variable with a space in the value?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:41:32 -0500
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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

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