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Mahendran
Mahendran

Reputation: 486

setting environmental variable in windows using cmd

To start the my project in windows i have to set the java environmental variable in cmd using below command

set JAVA_HOME = D:\Java\jdk1.7.0

but it didn't set the environment variable, i don't know what the issue.After pending couple hours i find the reason that is due to white space on both side of = symbol.Because of this environmental variable not getting set and i changed by command to 

set JAVA_HOME=D:\Java\jdk1.7.0

after that it is working fine.

My question is why this both command are not equal?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 381

Answers (1)

Melebius
Melebius

Reputation: 6695

The set command is aware of spaces. When you issue the command

set JAVA_HOME = D:\Java\jdk1.7.0

you actually set the variable JAVA_HOME␣ to value ␣D:\Java\jdk1.7.0. Note the spaces: ␣!

You can check it using the following way:

> echo [%JAVA_HOME%]
[%JAVA_HOME%]
> echo [%JAVA_HOME %]
[ D:\Java\jdk1.7.0]

The brackets are included in order to highlight spaces, they are not important by themselves.

Upvotes: 4

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