Hi, This question is w.r.t this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/171588/is-there-a-command-to-refresh-environment-variables-from-the-command-prompt-in where you had posted a comment in which we could avoid using the batch file. It would really help if you can show the complete example. Thanks. ...
Update: The link below does not have a complete answer. Having to set the path or variable in two places (one for GUI and one for shell) is lame. Not Duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x Coming from a Windows background where it's very easy to set and modify environment variables...
I've been told there is an environment variable you can set to force .NET applications to run as 32bit applications on x64 versions of Windows. Do you know what it is, or know of a reference on it? I'm afraid my google-fu has failed me today (or it doesn't exist). I'm using Resolver One (a .NET spreadsheet) and want to access some 32bit...
I am setting up an SMPTAppender to email log files when there is an error in production code. There are some machines, such as test machines that are local, where I don't want the email sent. I tried to use the environment variable COMPUTERNAME in a propertyfilter, but this didn't work: <filter type="log4net.Filter.PropertyFilter"> ...
I'd like to have access to the $HOME environment variable in a C++ program that I'm writing. If I were writing code in C, I'd just use the getenv() function, but I was wondering if there was a better way to do it. Here's the code that I have so far: std::string get_env_var( std::string const & key ) { ...
I need to have my own environmental variable (like $(VsInstallDir) ) for all projects in solution. How can i define it in my solution ? I'm using VS2008, C++ solution ...
Not being a windows VBS writer (but user of Windows shells) I use multiple different versions of third-party code which require me to set windows shell environment variables, specifically these are Java related Looking at the following question I began to ponder what I would need to do to quickly change shell environment variables with...
I have an environment variable called $TEST which refers to a directory in my bash script I have a variable called $VARTEST which is = $TEST/dir/file now I want to grep the file specified by $VARTEST so I try to do grep somestring $VARTEST but it doesn't translate $TEST into it's directory I've tried different combinations of {}, "" an...
I have two separate web services, the first configured to extract data from a live database, the second from a test database. When consuming these web services from an application the object returned is a MyMessageData class which is defined in the web service. In the application I would like to instantiate a empty the MyMessageData (f...
I would like to evaluate an environment variable and set the result to a variable: $x=eval($ENV{EDITOR}); print $x; outputs: /bin/vi works fine. If I set an environment variable QUOTE to \' and try the same thing: $x=eval($ENV{QUOTE}); print $x; outputs: (nothing) $@ set to: "Can't find a string terminator anywhere before ......
When I execute environment commands, such as env, set and unset, something happens, but what? set hello='hello world!' unset find What do you do with the commands? Are the changes permanent or temporary? Where can you see the changes? I am an Ubuntu-newbie. ...
I have a bunch of scripts that run tool flows. Like a Makefile does but in Perl. As part of those flows, the Perl scripts set environment vars and it's not always easy to know when they happen and hence it can be hard to reproduce individual stages of the flow. Is there a way to hook into %ENV such that I can register a callback when t...
I know how to retrieve a normal machine wide environment variable in CMAKE using $ENV{EnvironmentVariableName} but I can not retrieve a user specific environment variable. Is it possible and how? ...
I am building an application plugin in Python which allows users to arbitrarily extend the application with simple scripts (working under Mac OS X). Executing Python scripts is easy, but some users are more comfortable with languages like Ruby. From what I've read, I can easily execute Ruby scripts (or other arbitrary shell scripts) us...
I was hoping to write a python script to create some appropriate environmental variables by running the script in whatever directory I'll be executing some simulation code, and I've read that I can't write a script to make these env vars persist in the mac os terminal. So two things: Is this true? and It seems like it would be a usefu...
I've set LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS to /opt/local/lib, and verified that the library in question is there (I'm linking to GLEW): $ls /opt/local/lib libGLEW.1.5.1.dylib libfreetype.a libz.a libGLEW.1.5.dylib libfreetype.dylib libz.dylib libGLEW.a libfreetype.la pkgconfig libGLEW.dylib libz.1.2.3.dylib libfreetype.6.dylib libz.1.dyli...
How can I set Linux environment variables remotely from a Windows application? ...
I have a nant build file which numerous users have to run locally. Is there an easy way to automate the process of installing nant/nantcontrib and updating the matching environment variables on a windows system. I have thought off a solution where a folder containing the nant/contrib files and a batch script is copied to each station. ...
I would like to write a program that sets an environment variable in an instance of the shell (cmd.exe) it was called from. The idea is that I could store some state in this variable and then use it again on a subsequent call. I know there are commands like SetEnvironmentVariable, but my understanding is that those only change the va...
I have a perl script (part of the XMLTV family of "grabbers", specifically tv_grab_oztivo). I can successfully run it like this: /sw/bin/perl /path/to/tv_grab_oztivo --output /path/to/tv.xml I use the full paths to everything to eliminate issues with the Working Directory. Permissions shouldn't be a problem. So, if I run it from the...