Environment variables are system-wide variables which share the same value. These variables are often parsed by the shell when executing commands, and are expanded into their appropriate variable. For example, this allows users to move file locations without needing to update hard-coded paths in ...
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Using Environment variable in registry for command
I'm making a program which requires arguments from context menu (click a file and invoke my program with the file name as parameter).
I'm trying to add a registry key to ...\shell\myThing\command. ...
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How to run a symlink pointing to an executable in terminal (Linux)
I installed NodeJs on an Ubuntu machine, and the package have been installed as nodejs. Now, to run it as node, I created a symlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
This will work if I ...
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Is there any way to encapsulate bash functions?
I'm writing a simple script script.bash that is supposed to export some variables environment, to use it in my current session I have to source it
$ . script.bash
script.bash
function fun1() {
...
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Change environment variable for Mac 10.7
I would like to set the PATH on my Mac 10.7.
So in /etc/launchd.conf I wrote:
setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/sbin/
and I restarted Mac.
However when I write ...
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How to set path variable in Windows Server 2003?
Can someone help me figure out how to set a variable path in Windows Server 2003? I am trying to do the below code which is not working.
Update: My issue might actually be that the CURRENT PATH ...
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Creating folder alias like %SystemRoot% in windows 7
I'm trying to create a shortened path to a directory that is nested in a lot of directories (ie C:\Users.......................................\TestApp\Data\32\TutorialData which is 80+ characters to ...
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Why won't my Windows 8 Command line update its path
I needed to add a new entry to my PATH variable. This is a common activity for me in my job, but I've recently started using Windows 8. I assumed the process would be similar to Windows 7, Vista, ...
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rvm cluttering up my environment vars
I was trying to see a list of my environment variables in Bash (Mac Terminal) by typing set. But when I do, I am overwhelmed by a bunch of functions apparently defined by RVM. Is this supposed to ...
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Installing Python wrapper for METIS: Cannot locate METIS_DLL shared library
I am planning to use Metis for drawing some networks and graphs using Python 2.7. I downloaded Metis from here. I compiled and installed the source code without any problems. For installing the Python ...
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Creating a system variable
I would like to get some suggestion regarding adding an entry to the PATH variable under System Variables.
Whenever I install a program on my windows machine, I end up adding the path to the program ...
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How to resolve conflicts with different apps relying on different PATH variables?
I have two programs that rely on some .dll files. (Wikidpad and Microsoft WebMatrix2.)
I was using WikidPad for a while without issue. After I installed WebMatrix2 (which uses IIS Express, I ...
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Recover accidentally deleted Path environment variable
I use a Windows 7 x64. I just accidentally deleted my user path environment variable and was trying to recover it. I'm glad I found what I really need here.
But I don't understand what exactly ...
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Restore 'where' to PATH? [duplicate]
I'm trying to find out where programs are installed, but Windows can't find where!
Trace:
C:\Documents and Settings\apenneba>where java
'where' is not recognized as an internal or external ...
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Inform the User when a specific file updates or changes (SOLVED)
The other day I tried to make a batch file that will tell the user the Contest of a file when
a specific text file updates/changes here's my code so far it doesn't work for some reason :S
@echo ...
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Suppressing the “Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS” message
I'm using _JAVA_OPTIONS to set some defaults for Java on RHEL. It works fine but now every time I start java I get the following message
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -foo -bar -baz
is it possible to ...
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A shortcut in Windows 7 does not expand an environment variable if it is not given a argument
I have the following line for the Target: textbox under the Shorcut Properties page:
"C:\Program Files\gVim\gvim.exe" --servername %CYGWIN% --remote-silent-tab $*
The shortcut expands %CYGWIN% ...
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How can I add a folder containing a semicolon to the Windows PATH?
I noticed that the semicolon ; is a valid character for Windows (NTFS) file and directory names.
The semicolon is, however, used as element delimiter for the PATH environment variable.
Say I have a ...
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Where a bash variable (proxy) is defined
I have a problem with wget and I've discover that my proxy settings is wrong:
$ env | grep "proxy"
http_proxy=http://213.181.73.145:80
https_proxy=http://213.181.73.145:80
So, when I try to ...
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Shell script detecting errors from command called by script
I am calling applications from my shell script, which performs a number of important steps in sequence, one step being below:
for database in $(
echo 'show databases;' |
mysql ...
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Is it possible to make the environment ignore $http_proxy env variable for certain urls?
In Firefox, I can set a proxy for all URLs except certain domains.
Is it possible to do the same with the http_proxy environmental variable?
That is, could I set another variable to exclude certain ...
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Why would the TEMP environment variable contain more than one path?
A colleague's %TEMP% environment variable has this value:
C:\Users\his.name\AppData\Local\Temp; C:\Program Files (x86)\MATLAB\MATLAB Compiler Runtime\v78\runtime\win32; C:\Program Files ...
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%USERPROFILE% variable not working
If I try to create files in the command prompt using the commands
mkdir C:\Users\Tristan\AppData\Roaming\modinstaller\recovery
mkdir C:\Users\Tristan\AppData\Roaming\modinstaller\mods
my computer ...
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Switch characters in MAC address from a variable
This batch is used with a few other files as start-up scripts as a part of the Symantec Ghost Cast re-imaging process for Windows 7 we are about to undertake. Together they totally automate the entire ...
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Add a directory and all subdirectories to the PATH variable with a single entry
I've got a directory in my home folder in which I place command-line software (CMD_Software). I put each piece of software in its own directory within CMD_Software in order to avoid clutter.
I would ...
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Environment variable not being read
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and am having problems with getting a command to execute. I have set up the variable in /etc/environment which looks like this:
FEDORA_HOME="/var/lib/fedora"
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Unable to get profile variable using ssh
Unable to retrieve the profile variable using ssh.
server2 ==> user apptst ==> bash profile has $APPHOME variable.
Was trying to retrieve the value from server1 using ssh but failed.
Used options ...
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Setting user environment variables is very slow
I'm using the GitHub for Windows application. Lately I've noticed that starting a PowerShell console from within the GitHub application takes ages. After some digging I've found that the slow command ...
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How can I store encfs6.xml in another location (and still make it detectable)?
How can I make encfs4win search for the encfs6 file in another location?
I tried modifying the encfs_mount.cmd file at the end, like so:
set ENCFS6_CONFIG=c:/test1/.encfs6.xml
%pathtoencfs%encfs ...
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Set three PATHS in Ubuntu
I've been at this all day now, reading every single type of different way to add these lines. It resulted in me being locked out of my profile because I set the .profile wrong. So I'll just ask the ...
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gstreamer can't find plugin DLL
I'm trying to install a custom gstreamer plugin on Windows 7 x64. I've got the compile plugin as a .dll.
Gstreamer resides in:
C:\gstreamer-sdk\0.10\x86_64\
The lib directory where I placed the ...
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Auditing use of system vars in Win7
I was wondering if there is a way to mount some sort of a hook on a system variable in Win7 which would allow me to trace which application and at what time referenced it. I would like to know this ...
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Path variable broken Windows 7?
I have been trying to compile and execute both Python 2.7 and Java programs on my Windows 7 computer. Both of these have been installed, and I am attempting to run my programs off of the command line. ...
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Ubuntu environment setting for GUI session (or making the same with terminal)
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10
When I log in using normal GUI desktop, it seems that the environment is not the same with the terminal.
I modified $PATH and other information in .bashrc. But, this doesn't ...
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What is the significance of the 'Case' in PowerShell's Env: variables?
Why are some of Windows environmental variable names in Proper case, while most are in UPPERCASE? What is the reason that windir alone is in lowercase?
Get-ChildItem Env:
Sample:
Name ...
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Environment variable's address is changing?
Don't ask why I am not posting this at Stack. So I have this small C program. It returns the address of the environment variable specified in argv[1].
#include <stdio.h>
#include ...
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Echo string in tcsh with special characters escaped
Is it possible to echo out a string in tcsh such that it is fully escaped, as tcsh would understand? In the same way as printf %q works in bash:
% # Create a variable containing a tab character
% ...
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Zsh alternative to bash's quick assignment and inheritance trick
There's a trick available in bash allowing you to set environment variable for child process and run it in single line, retaining original values of variable in the shell. For example, in order to set ...
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Does Cygwin import user variables or just system variables?
I can see windows system variables in cygwin with
echo $MYVar
However, user variables don't seem to work. I'm referring to the variables you set in system properties->advanced->environment ...
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sudo -E not passing all variables
Reading the man pages I expected sudo -E to pass all environment variables to the subshell, but I am not getting the expected results.
As expected, awesome:
$ export ...
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Can I change the environment on a per-process basis on Windows (like on Unix)?
On Unix operative systems I can start a process with additional environment variables like this:
$ DEBUG=1 VERBOSE=3 python myscript.py
Does the Windows CMD have an equivalent for this? I'm stuck ...
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Escaping a directory in a $PATH-like list
I'm developing a wrapper for LibGit2, the Git library.
And I come out with a problem:
Many GIT functions accept path lists, that is, a string
composed of a series of paths separated by a token,
that ...
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Setup remote machine environment variables Ubuntu
I searched on net regarding the issue but was unable to find any specific solution to the issue. The problem being:
I am not able to set environment variables of a remote machine through Jenkins ...
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Is it possible to use a Windows environment variable in a Chrome bookmark?
I use a software library whom I often refer to the documentation pages.
Those are html pages, therefore I created several bookmarks to quickly access to them.
However, when the library version ...
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Set windows system enviroment variable to use the enviroment variable %username%
I'm trying to set a system environment variable to use use the current logged in username. I'm tried the below using the username environment variable but it doesn't work. I'm using "setx /m" on ...
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Root set environment variables
I have a small bash script which downloads a critical file, opens an SFPT connection, puts the file and closes the connection.
As you can imagine, my script has some username and password information ...
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Using Call SET to Designate a Variable in a Dos Batch “For” Loop
Trying to use the Call SET to set a variable in a windows batch file loop. Not working but here is the input / output file. trying to assign Var C to equal 1.
Batch file:
@ECHO OFF
for /f ...
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Environment auto-install
When I work, I often have to switch computers or virtual machines which means that every time I switch, I have to set up my (Linux) environment again.
My question is the following :
Is there a tool ...
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Cannot resolve %windir% / Cannot modify %path% or %path% being reset on boot
See Updates 3 and 4 below for how the issue has evolved
My computer (Windows 7 x64, Lenovo Thinkpad T530) is having an issue resolving %windir%. After boot-up, everything works fine. At some ...
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Home directory variable for Windows 8
Is the home directory variable for Windows 8 the same as it was for Windows 7, %UserProfile%?
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Cygwin not cooperating
This is gonna sound very simple for you guys but I've never installed cygwin and the tutorial I used gave no contingency plan for when something goes wrong. I added the path C:\cygwin\bin to my Path ...
