how2 read value of DOS env var containing a "." ?

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Fri Mar 2 09:46:00 GMT 2001


richardson@evansville.edu wrote:
> 
> Not pretty, but works:
> 
> bashvar=$(set | grep DOS.VAR | cut -d= -f2)
> 
> (I didn't know that bash vars couldn't have "."s in their
> names. I wonder why not?)
> 

Uhm, just because it was programmed not too?  Use the source, Luke.
(tm)  It is very easily modifiable.

Earnie.

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