On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Dave Land wrote:
Happily, Apple provided a utility that handles it for you:
defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment"
Actually, making this work in bash (or other shell) requires a little
more than just reading the file... Here's the relevant chunk from
my .bashrc:
# Get environment variables from ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
# (This avoids the sin of duplicating data here and in that file)
if [[ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]] ; then
defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment | grep -v '[{}]' | tr '"' "'" |
awk '{ print "declare -x",$1"="$3 }' | while read -r OneLine; do eval
$OneLine; done;
fi
To give credit where it's due, this came from a comment on
macosxhints.com.
The conditional (if [[ `uname` == "Darwin' ]]) is because I use this
same .bashrc across several hosts, including Solaris, Linux, and Mac
OS X.
Dave
