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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