On Sep 29, 2008, at 15:59 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Sep 29, 2008, at 15:49 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
Herein lies the problem: I have a program that accepts complete commands from a file and executes them. It works perfectly. And now I'd just like to set an environment variable while each command runs... But alas no, the only way to do that is with runProcess, which expects me to parse the command line first. (Before anybody remarks that "words" will do this, consider the "echo" command, which treats whitespace meaningfully.)
env FOO=bar mycommand ...
Does that work for Windows?
Only if on of the unix-simulation environments is installed. I wouldn't want to bet on such things working reliably cross-platform anyway; even if it works something like the same way, the variable names are usually different. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH