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The backslash escapes the space because it would otherwise denote a seperator to the next argument of the command.
ls a b cmeans invoke ls with the three arguments a,b, and c.ls 'a b c'orls a\ b\ cmeans invoke ls with one argument "a b c". That behavior is universal for pretty much all unix/linux shells (ie bash).Thanks for explaining. How do I go about editing the bashrc file to add the export line? I am still relatively new to linux and the file has a warning about making changes unless I know what I'm doing.
Just paste it into the end of the file, save and close it, then run "source ~/.bashrc" in the terminal to force bash to read the new settings (or close the terminal and open it again).
Heed the warning ;-)
Jk. It's not black magic. Just do as AlpacaChariot said. You might want to read up on it a bit https://www.shell-tips.com/bash/environment-variables/