From: beverly AT datacube DOT com (Beverly Brown)
Subject: Re: Perl script to set up bash environment.
13 Dec 1996 08:07:04 -0800
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At 02:43 PM 12/9/96 +0000, you wrote:
>I have written a perl script for the win32 version of perl that 
>converts envinronment variables over to unix type variables for bash,	
>then resets the variables after leaving bash.  I should have posted 
>this a while ago, but richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk got my butt moving 
>with his post.  I call it "shell.bat" and here is how it goes:
>

[long script snipped]


Just to let you know, Perl has a predefined associative array with all the
environment variables already in it. For example, you could use
$ENV{"COMSPEC"} to retrieve the value of your COMSPEC environment variable.




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