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

I installed Java outside of "Program Files", specifically in c:\tools. Then you can use cygpath to convert the C:\tools\jdk1.8.0_144 to /cygdrive/c/tools/jdk1.8.0_144