Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3696.68.55.203.3.1072381783.squirrel@webmail.umbc.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 14:49:43 -0500 (EST) Subject: Problem using export command From: "Anjali Bharat Shah" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: anjali1 AT umbc DOT edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AvMilter-Key: 1072382085:29075170ae277236494c80897311ce80 X-Avmilter: Message Skipped, too small X-Processed-By: MilterMonkey Version 0.9 -- http://www.membrain.com/miltermonkey Hi, I have a file in which I do the following: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$REI_HOME/lib export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$CP:$REI_HOME/classes:. rm $REI_HOME/classes/*.class $JAVA_HOME/javac -d classes $REI_HOME/src/*.java $JAVA_HOME/java ReiEngine $REI_HOME/config.xml This file runs without problems in Linux, but under cygwin it gives the following error: export: Files\Xinox: bad variable name A similar problem was faced by someone who posted a message to the mailing list. But I found no answer to that and so am posting my message again. If someone could please help me figure why this error occurs and suggest some solution, I will be very glad. Thanking You Sincerely, Anjali. Anjali Bharat Shah Graduate Student Computer Science Department University of Maryland Baltimore County -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/