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looooker
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Reputation: 71

Set enviroment variable with having space mac

I want to set an environment variable that has space in it. it is a path to a folder and the folder name is:

/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-2.10

I edit .bash_profile and add the following line to it:

export GRADLE_HOME=/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-2.10

and I get the result 

-bash: export: `Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-2.10': not a valid identifier

what should I do?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 4815

Answers (1)

sjsam
sjsam

Reputation: 21965

You can do it either this 

export GRADLE_HOME=/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-2.10

way or this

export GRADLE_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-2.10"

Important

Having taken so much pain in exporting the variable correctly, always make sure that you double quote the variable when you reference it in shell ie do:

"$GRADLE_HOME"

and not

$GRADLE_HOME

Example :

ls $GRADLE_HOME

will produce unexpected results.

Upvotes: 11

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