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From: Jerome Fong <jfong@successmetricsinc.com>
Subject:  Re: how do you create an usable path variable with a space in it?
Date:  Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:42:13 -0800
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Thanks Brian,

It works now.  I thought I went through that, but apparently I didn't it 
wrong.

thanks,

Jerome

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Jerome Fong wrote:
> 
>> export JAVA_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_10'
> 
> This is wrong.  Either backslash-escape the space or use quotes, but not
> both.  You are embedding an actual backslash in the value, which is not
> what you want.  The purpose of the backslash is not to exist in the
> value of the variable, but to tell the shell not to treat the space as
> separating two arguments.
> 
> export FOO="some string"
> export FOO=some\ string
> 
> Brian
> 


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