From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to read/modify environment variables?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 19:44:18 +0000
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Martin Bernreuther wrote:
> 
> I like to write a small tool to add a path to the PATH variable
> only if it's not already in.
> How can I get a hold of the environment variables?
> Is there already a tool to do this?
> Is there maybe a tool just to search a environment variable for
> a string?

getenv().  Look it up in the libc docs.  See also its complement,
putenv().

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John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I <fighteer AT cs DOT com>

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