export JAVA_HOME with spaces in Cygwin

Question

I\'m trying to set my JAVA_HOME in Cygwin with this command:

export JAVA_HOME=\"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0_10\"

But when I do

Answer 1

To avoid using the tedious Windows environment variables, and also use the actual path string copied from Windows explorer, I suggest adding the following to your startup script:

             TMP=`cygpath -sw "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_31"`
export JAVA_HOME=`cygpath -u $TMP`

The first cygpath invocation obtains a short, windows path; the second converts it to unix format, which works fine in cygwin.

This will also now work fine:

$ cd $JAVA_HOME