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1. HP-UX
Hi Experts,
Need your help in understanding the commands to setup the environment variables in hp-ux.
Beleive need to use either set,setenv or export.
I am confused between above three options, when to use which option?
On command line, I have tried both set and setenv but couldn't... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sai_2507
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have read tons of posts about how you can't set persisting environment variable in a child script of a shell and have it persist. The only way is to source a file as
% . <scriptname>
I am finding that true... but I know there is a way around it. I just don't know how. I worked for 6... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rwa25
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all!
I have the following problem:
I want to create a symbolic link at the root: /a
which points to the folder: /b/MyFiles
It's simple, but here comes the troubling part. If I log in with an other user at the same time, I would like to see the following under a:
/b/HisFiles
so... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Emri Balázs
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
why are all environment variables represented in a fixed format regardless of the shell you use?
like $HOME $PATH etc (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sravani
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
say i define an environment variable in a particular script (upgrade.sh).
my script is upgarde.sh and it calls another script try.sh. will this environment variable be accessible to try.sh also. if not how to I make environment variables global so that they can be used by any script. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lassimanji
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want the user to be able to commands as another user.. but when they do that.. I need them to have the environment variables of the other user. is this possible with sudo?
sudo -H -u user env
'env' is giving me the environment of the current user, not the user I want to run commands as.
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: julesdiane
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello,
I am interested in your strategy for handling engineers Unix accounts when the engineers must log in to resources in a variety of locals in a global environment. The engineers home directory and normal environment is local to where the engineer is sitting. When they log in to a remote... (0 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
If i have a variable set and exported in my pofile file will that variable be available in all shell scripts created.
Thanks,
Radhika. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: radhika03
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I want to extract users environment variables via a sh script, and for some reason it is not working.
According to the su man page: Example 3: Executing command with user bin's Environment and
Permissions
To execute command with the temporary environment and per-... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tornado
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi,
1). i would like to know what is meant by environment variables?
2). is the number of envi variables is a constant number for unix systems?
3). how to see the list of envi variables (and the values of the envi variables)in a single command?
4). if this questions were already asked... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sekar sundaram
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Add environment variables for all users