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spaces in JVM arguments

843811May 2 2005 — edited May 3 2005

On Windows, I want to hand a directory path to the JVM in the following way
java -Dworking.dir=<mydir>
Unfortunately, the <mydir> is provided by the %USERPROFILE% environment variable and
contains whitespace (c:\documents and settings\username). How can I quote this argument to prevent the JVM from complaining about the bad option 'and' which supposedly starts after the first whitespace?

Thanks a lot
Andreas

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