Re: [dev] environment variables versus runtime configuration (rc) files versus X resources

From: Brandon Mulcahy <brandon_AT_jangler.info>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 17:36:19 -0500

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:21:20PM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014, at 05:14 PM, Martti Kühne wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Brandon Mulcahy <brandon_AT_jangler.info>
> > wrote:
> > > choice (besides doing something like `export option=a; command; export
> > > option=b`). I do wish the concept of aliasing were a bit more general.
> >
> >
> > Did you hear of the shell feature where you could immediately pass
> > environment variables by prepending them to your command?
> > Like so:
> >
> > export option=b;
> > option=a command;
> > echo $option # shows b
>
> And if your shell of choice doesn't happen to support that feature, or
> if you just want to do it in a way that will work regardless of the
> shell, there is the env command:
> env a=1 b=2 c=3 command

Nevermind then! Thanks for the tips.
Received on Mon Nov 03 2014 - 23:36:19 CET

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