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Operating Systems AIX Best way to setup my own environmental variables ? Post 302402285 by Browser_ice on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 10:29:14 AM
Old 03-09-2010
Question Best way to setup my own environmental variables ?
I am writing a few korn scripts to be used by all our operators on several 4.1/4.2 AIX servers.

I want to create environmental variables that once set, can be read/modified by my scripts (ex: specific folders, file names, conventions, general values, ...). I thought this would be better then simply retyping them in all my scripts and would make maintenance a lot easier.

What would be the best way to do this ?

My scripting level is beginner but mainly because I am very rusty (used to do it a few years back).
 

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