Re^2: Read UNIX environment variable

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Re^3: Read UNIX environment variable by fisher (Priest) on Feb 09, 2011 at 13:25 UTC
Well, thank you, captain.	[reply]
Re^3: Read UNIX environment variable by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2011 at 11:01 UTC
Thanks, will I be able to access env variables if my perl code gets run from cron?	[reply]
Re^4: Read UNIX environment variable by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 09, 2011 at 11:20 UTC
Yes and no. You can read an environment, but as cron jobs run their own environment, you need to load the environment you want. See Get default login environment.	[reply]
Re^5: Read UNIX environment variable by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2011 at 12:25 UTC
Thanks for the heads up. I'm a bit confused though. In he example you link to do I need to change the rest of my script or does $ENV get overwritten by the function? Do I just call %ENV = (%ENV, get_login_env()); and continue as I did before With my $varname = $ENV{'ENV_VAR_NAME'};? Thanks	[reply]
Re^6: Read UNIX environment variable by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 09, 2011 at 12:44 UTC
Re^7: Read UNIX environment variable by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2011 at 13:55 UTC
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Re^4: Read UNIX environment variable by johngg (Canon) on Feb 09, 2011 at 11:13 UTC
You can access environment variables in a script run as a cron job but take note that cron jobs often have only a sub-set of the environment available to a user shell. For instance, you will likely have a minimal `$PATH` under cron. It might be worth writing a small script to dump the environment to a file then run it as a cron job to see what's available. I hope this is helpful. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l]