On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Chris Bell <cwbell@mail.usf.edu> wrote:
The problem is, I don't know where to start with this. My idea was to
use environment variables to identify the current workspace, but I'm
not sure how to.

Also note that environment variables will not work if you expect to see them in e.g. shells; they're inherited at process creation time and cannot be updated by other processes afterward.

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