I’m trying to define and use a variable in a batch file. It looks like it should be simple: @echo off set location = “bob” echo We’re working with “%location%” The output I get is the following: We’re working with “” What’s going on here? Why is my variable not being echo’d? 4 s 4 … Read more
When someone says “edit your .plist file” or “your .profile” or “.bash_profile” etc, this just confuses me. I have no idea where these files are, how to create them if I have to do that, etc, and also why there seem to be so many different ones (why? Do they do different things?) So could … Read more
I have an installation of Git for Windows, but when I try to use the git command in Command Prompt, I get the following error: ‘git’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. How do I fix this problem? 20 s 20 Have you correctly set your PATH … Read more
If I modify or add an environment variable I have to restart the command prompt. Is there a command I could execute that would do this without restarting CMD? 26 s 26 On Windows 7/8/10, you can install Chocolatey, which has a script for this built-in. After installing Chocolatey, just type refreshenv.
I am trying to add C:\xampp\php to my system PATH environment variable in Windows. I have already added it using the Environment Variables dialog box. But when I type into my console: C:\>path it doesn’t show the new C:\xampp\php directory: PATH=D:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\bin;C:\Ruby192\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS; C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA~1\DISKEE~2\DISKEE~1\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;D:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin ;D:\Program Files\Bazaar;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools;D:\Program Files\ Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;D:\Program … Read more
TL;DR: How do I export a set of key/value pairs from a text file into the shell environment? For the record, below is the original version of the question, with examples. I’m writing a script in bash which parses files with 3 variables in a certain folder, this is one of them: MINIENTREGA_FECHALIMITE=”2011-03-31″ MINIENTREGA_FICHEROS=”informe.txt programa.c” … Read more
What is the proper way to modify environment variables like PATH in OS X? I’ve looked on Google a little bit and found three different files to edit: /etc/paths ~/.profile ~/.tcshrc I don’t even have some of these files, and I’m pretty sure that .tcshrc is wrong, since OS X uses bash now. Where are these variables, … Read more
In Bash, there appear to be several variables which hold special, consistently-meaning values. For instance, ./myprogram &; echo $! will return the PID of the process which backgrounded myprogram. I know of others, such as $? which I think is the current TTY. Are there others? 4 s 4
I need to set some environment variables in the Python script and I want all the other scripts that are called from Python to see the environment variables’ set. If I do, os.environ[“DEBUSSY”] = 1 it complains saying that 1 has to be a string. I also want to know how to read the environment … Read more
Is it possible to list all environment variables from a Windows’ command prompt? Something equivalent to PowerShell’s gci env: (or ls env: or dir env:). 9 s 9 Just do: SET You can also do SET prefix to see all variables with names starting with prefix. For example, if you want to read only derbydb … Read more
