how to invoke java.exe in bash under windows in cygwin with space in path

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Published on 2010-06-17T18:04:40Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 18:33 UTC
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Hi,

I tried to invoke java inside bash script on windows (Win XP) using cygwin. However path to java.exe contain spaces.

only literaly putting in bash sometghing like this worked:

/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_10/bin/java -cp "$TOOL_HOME" DateParse  "$DATE" "$FORMAT"

My attemts to put java path to a variable failed:

export JAVA_EXE="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_10/bin/java"
$JAVA_EXE -cp "$TOOL_HOME" DateParse  "$DATE" "$FORMAT"

also different combination with cygpath, quotes, brackets did not work. I am not finding the the right combination

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