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

on MSYS2 terminal

checke for previous claim: ls "/C/program files/" !works! -thats for long file names so, to the point:

export JAVA_HOME="/D/Devel/jdk-12.0.2"

And now maven works....

check:

user55@DESKTOP MSYS ~
# echo $JAVA_HOME
/D/Devel/jdk-12.0.2