Access windows environment variable via cygwin

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 05/11/2017 10:44 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 5/11/2017 9:14 PM, ChampS wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to use Cygwin to access all Windows applications installed on my
>> Windows 7 system. The
>> Problem is that Windows is using spaces in its environment variable 'Path'
>> and Cygwin can not handle
>> the spaces. Is there a way to use the Windows environment variable 'Path'
>> even with spaces in it?
>> For Example I want to start x86 sbt via Cygwin, then I will get the
>> following error message:
>> "/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/sbt/bin/sbt: line 61:
>> /sbt-launch-lib.bash: No such file or
>> directory". But when I try it with the default Windows cmd it works.
>>
>> Thought about something like iterating over the 'Path' environment
>> variable in bashrc and adapt the
>> strings to fit for Cygwin. But I don't know how I can access the Windows
>> environment variables and
>> how I could provide the adapted environment variable to Cygwin.
>>
>> Someone an idea how I could solve this issue?
>
> Yeah, spaces are hell in paths in the Posix/Linux kind of world.

Really, they are just as bad in the Windows world, as one quickly finds out
if you're at a command prompt.  Just as spaces in path and file names need
to be escaped in POSIX/Linux/Unix and like environments, Windows requires
the same thing.  It just uses different syntax for doing so.  But that's
OK.  Without all this complication, using computers would be no fun at all.
;-)

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Larry

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