You have to use the escape character before the separator character ":"
asadmin create-jvm-options --user admin -- -Dtest=c\\:\\\\temp
See the examples in the reference manual
http://glassfish.dev.java.net/nonav/javaee5/docs/AS9PEREFMAN.pdf
Karthik Sudarshan wrote, On 10/09/06 15:56:
> Hi Harsha,
> Thanks for the quick reply. The below change works in case of
> normal values for the jvm option.
> However, I have further problems. For instance, if I need to give the
> value of a directory in Windows, it fails:
>
> asadmin.bat create-jvm-options -- -Dcom.sun.test=c:\temp
>
> I get an error message :
> "Invalid jvm option temp. option must begin with -"
>
> I tried replacing the \ with / and also with \\, but I got the same
> error. I also tried to put the value in quotes like "c:\temp" but I
> guess that's not the way to go :)
>
> Do you have any suggestions for this?
>
>
> Thanks
> Karthik
>
> Harsha R A wrote:
>> Hi Karthik,
>> You have to give the option like this
>>
>> asadmin create-jvm-options --user admin -- -Dtest=test
>>
>> Note the usage of double hyphen indicating end of asadmin options and
>> the beginning of the operand.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Harsha
>>
>> Karthik Sudarshan wrote, On 10/09/06 14:02:
>>> Hi,
>>> I've installed Glassfish on Windows. I'm trying to create a new
>>> jvm option from the command line using asadmin.bat. The command
>>> always fails. A test line was :
>>>
>>> asadmin.bat create-jvm-options -Dtest=test
>>>
>>> The message that I got for this was :
>>>
>>>
>>> Usage: create-jvm-options [--terse=false] [--echo=false]
>>> [--interactive=true] [-
>>> -host localhost] [--port 4848|4849] [--secure | -s] [--user
>>> admin_user] [--passw
>>> ordfile file_name] [--profiler=false] [--target target(Default
>>> server)] (jvm_opt
>>> ion_name[=jvm_option_value])[:jvm_option_name[=jvm_option_value]]*
>>> CLI011 Invalid option, -Dtest=test
>>>
>>> If I remove the -D part then I get an error message saying that the
>>> option should start with "-".
>>>
>>> Is there something wrong with the way I'm trying to set the jvm
>>> option? I guess not, because, when I used the admin console and
>>> created the jvm option it went through fine. So I think this might
>>> be a bug in the CLI for windows.
>>>
>>> If anyone can provide any ideas, it would be great.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> KarthikUnable to create jvm option on Windows
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