On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:44:13 +0100 Michael Stummvoll <mich...@stummi.org> wrote:
> On 13.01.2012 14:35, Neil Williams wrote: > > printenv? Maybe printenv combined with sed or grep ... What is the > > advantage? > expanding variables in a file is very tricky using bash only. ? file? You're talking about environment variables. > And I don't really see your point. What did you mean with "printenv > combined with sed"? Listing all environment-variables and replacing them > in the stream using sed? $ printenv|grep GDM_LANG|sed -e 's/GDM_LANG=//' #!/bin/sh GLANG=`printenv|grep GDM_LANG|sed -e 's/GDM_LANG=//'` echo $GLANG Why is that hard? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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