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> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schind=
elin <at> gmx.de> wrote:
>=20
> > In my tests, "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)" did *not* work:
> >
> >     $ echo "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
> >     bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>=20
> Interesting. In both MSYS1/2 Git Bashes I get on Windows 7 64-bit:
>=20
> $ echo "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
> C:\Program Files (x86)(X86)
>=20
> 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 th=
e
> variable name.

It would be ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}, but POSIX says that variable names ca=
n
only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores, and Bash adheres
when it complains about it in Johannes' example above.  Not sure whethe=
r
there is a clever escaping that could make it work, I couldn't find any=
=2E


G=E1bor