as you write the it with double-quotes, you don’t need to escape spaces with \
export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/C/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin/"
of course this also works:
export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/C/Program\ Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin/
as you write the it with double-quotes, you don’t need to escape spaces with \
export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/C/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin/"
of course this also works:
export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/C/Program\ Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_23/bin/