> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin <at> gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > In my tests, "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)" did *not* work:
> >
> > $ echo "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
> > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>
> Interesting. In both MSYS1/2 Git Bashes I get on Windows 7 64-bit:
>
> $ echo "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
> C:\Program Files (x86)(X86)
>
> So it seems to resolve only the $PROGRAMFILES part and appending the
> literal "(X86)". Not sure how to tell Bash that "(X86)" is part of the
> variable name.
It would be ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}, but POSIX says that variable names can
only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores, and Bash adheres
when it complains about it in Johannes' example above. Not sure whether
there is a clever escaping that could make it work, I couldn't find any.
G�r
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