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cygx
9y ago
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It's used as separator in various places on *nix (eg PATH).
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ygra
9y ago
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So are semicolons on Windows, yet still legal in file names. For PATH you can just quote the ones containing the separator (at least on Windows).
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9y ago
Traditionally, there's no way to quote in PATH on *nix. I do not believe that's changed, so if you cannot just change the name, you'd need to use a workaround like creating a colon-free symlink.
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