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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers "$" in environment variable Post 32193 by criglerj on Wednesday 20th of November 2002 09:22:50 AM
Old 11-20-2002
Quote:
Originally posted by lamac
I'm using SunSolaris.

I know, it sounds crazy, it's not my fault. I'm migrating a VAX/VMS (no I'm not 60 years old...) application to UNIX, but I'm not that much aquainted with UNIX. But I do know how to read values from a shell.

The value is set with "setenv", like this:

setenv 'DIR$INP' "$HOME/cart/log"

This works, and I can see the values in the environment. But I can't access the value with $DIR\$INP. I don't get it.
Okay, you're using csh or tcsh: Both will allow you to set such a variable, but neither will allow you to use it in the shell. If you need the value of this variable at the shell level do something like one of these:
Code:
setenv 'DIR$INP' "$HOME/cart/log"
awk 'BEGIN { print ENVIRON["DIR$INP"] ; exit }'
# a less direct alternative:
env | grep '^DIR$INP' | cut -d= -f2
# or equivalently:
env | awk -F= '/^DIR$INP/ { print $2 }'

At least one of these should work.
 

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