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etayluz
etayluz

Reputation: 16436

How to export environment variable with space in path on terminal

I just downloaded Java and according to the Java Control Panel the executable is at this directory: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java

Now I want to export an env variable JAVA_HOME as such:

>export JAVA_HOME=“/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java”

But when I print out the variable everything after the space is butchered

>$JAVA_HOME
-bash: “/Library/Internet: No such file or directory

How do I properly export this path to the variable?

Now there is another question that answers this but that answer there doesn't work:

>SOME_PATH="/mnt/someProject/some path"
>$SOME_PATH
-bash: /mnt/someProject/some: No such file or directory

And using the other answer on there:

>SOME_PATH=/mnt/someProject/some\ path
>$SOME_PATH
-bash: /mnt/someProject/some: No such file or directory

And here is my bash version (I'm on macOS 10.14.5):

>echo $BASH_VERSION
3.2.57(1)-release

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6939

Answers (3)

Yun Wu
Yun Wu

Reputation: 71

I think the quote mark you used (“) is not the ASCII quote mark (" or ').

Upvotes: 0

NoDataFound
NoDataFound

Reputation: 11959

You must use double quote or single quote: the interpreter is seeing “ as any character, thus trying to find a program “/Library/Internet.

export JAVA_HOME='/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'

You don't need to escape anything with single quote, apart from single quote and backslash.

Note that when you are using it directly, like $JAVA_HOME foobar.Main, you need to add double quote as well because in that case $JAVA_HOME contains space:

"$JAVA_HOME" foobar.Main

Some terminal might work without double quote, but you should not rely on it.

However, the JAVA_HOME is wrong: it should point to a folder which contains /bin/java:

export JAVA_HOME="/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_202"
export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"

In that case, you would simply invoke java and your shell would resolve the executable.

Upvotes: 0

Ijaz Ahmad
Ijaz Ahmad

Reputation: 12110

Single quote and double quote , everything works:

[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.4.12(1)-release
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java"
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ export JAVA_HOME='/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$ 
[iahmad@web-prod-ijaz001 ~]$

Upvotes: 1

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