Re: Access windows environment variable via cygwin

2017-05-12 Thread cyg Simple
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 envir

Re: Access windows environment variable via cygwin

2017-05-12 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > Cygwin has no problem with paths containing spaces. That may be somewhat of an oversimplification. Due to the way we do backups at work, my Cygwin "root" is installed in a path that contains spaces. Most things work OK, but Xwin is unable t

Re: Access windows environment variable via cygwin

2017-05-12 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-05-12 06:23, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Someone an idea how I could solve this issue? >> If your scripts use environment variables, they should be careful >> to enclose uses of those variables in double quotes "$VAR". > Correction: You should always use proper quoting, even if you 100% know t

Re: Access windows environment variable via cygwin

2017-05-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Brian Inglis! >> Someone an idea how I could solve this issue? > If your scripts use environment variables, they should be careful > to enclose uses of those variables in double quotes "$VAR". Correction: You should always use proper quoting, even if you 100% know the variable conten

Re: Access windows environment variable via cygwin

2017-05-11 Thread 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 the

Re: Access windows environment variable via cygwin

2017-05-11 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-05-11 19:14, ChampS wrote: > 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 var

Re: Access windows environment variable via cygwin

2017-05-11 Thread Eliot Moss
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 v

Access windows environment variable via cygwin

2017-05-11 Thread ChampS
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