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Hi,

This obviously isn't specific to cygwin, I don't think.

I am trying  to run some bash scripts in cygwin

$JAVA_HOME is the env variable which  I can echo from the script as  
/cygdrive/c/jdk1.6.0_16

but the script sets

JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java/

I want to see if this is set right so I set an echo this in the script

echo JAVA

but this just gives "JAVA"

and this

echo $JAVA

/bin/java/c/jdk1.6.0_16

which some how over writes part of the variable.

What is the right way to set and to echo the JAVA variable?

Thanks
Brian



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