On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:24 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> $ 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.
Right, I did already try that curly-braces-style of quoting, and
MSYS1/2 both give:
$ echo ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}
sh.exe": ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}: bad substitution
I couldn't find any other style of quoting that works, either.
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Sebastian Schuberth
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