WSL PATH inheritance from Windows

[MichaelTong]

I was using VSCode on Windows, and I add my own script to start code.exe by invoking cmd.exe /C Code.exe.
Suddenly, I start to notice that $PATH in WSL in actually inherited from Windows, while the format is somehow wrong: For [space] in the path, it is just like Program[space]Files/... instead of Program\[space]Files/..., and this prevents me export additional path to $PATH.

• Your Windows build number: 10.0.15063

• What you're doing and what's happening: In a script, export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/c/Windows/System32

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead: export error because there are [space] in original PATH

• Strace of the failing command, if applicable: (If <cmd> is failing, then run strace -o strace.txt -ff <cmd>, and post the strace.txt output here)

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[therealkenc]

and this prevents me export additional path to $PATH

export PATH="$PATH":"/spaces/in paths is/not/an/error"

[MichaelTong]

Oh I see. Thanks!