04-04-2008
Environment variables in Perl
I don't use perl very often, and am stuck on how to create a perl variable from a literal and an environment variable;
eg
$FILE='/u/output'+env($UNIQUE_ID);
Also how does the Apache web server create the UNIQUE_ID environment variable, and will an 8 character substring from 3 to 10 incl, in lower case be unique?
Thanks,
Jack
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KENV(1) BSD General Commands Manual KENV(1)
NAME
kenv -- dump or modify the kernel environment
SYNOPSIS
kenv [-hNq]
kenv [-qv] variable[=value]
kenv [-q] -u variable
DESCRIPTION
The kenv utility will dump the kernel environment if invoked without arguments. If the -h option is specified, it will limit the report to
kernel probe hints. If an optional variable name is specified, kenv will only report that value. If the -N option is specified, kenv will
only display variable names and not their values. If the -u option is specified, kenv will delete the given environment variable. If the
environment variable is followed by an optional value, kenv will set the environment variable to this value.
If the -q option is set, warnings normally printed as a result of being unable to perform the requested operation will be suppressed.
If the -v option is set, the variable name will be printed out for the environment variable in addition to the value when kenv is executed
with a variable name.
Variables can be added to the kernel environment using the /boot/loader.conf file, or also statically compiled into the kernel using the
statement
env filename
in the kernel config file. The file can contain lines of the form
name = value # this is a comment
where whitespace around name and '=', and everything after a '#' character, are ignored. Almost any printable character except '=' is
acceptable as part of a name. Quotes are optional and necessary only if the value contains whitespace.
SEE ALSO
kenv(2), config(5), loader.conf(5), loader(8)
HISTORY
The kenv utility appeared in FreeBSD 4.1.1.
BSD
May 11, 2012 BSD