RE: windows power shell
- From: Katherine Moss <Katherine.Moss@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:40:23 +0000
I'll never forget the issue I had trying to use that command to set up Pithon
as an environment variable and how it failed big time. Is that a really
particular command?
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:16 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: qubit
Subject: Re: windows power shell
At a Windows command prompt, one can get a list of the names and values of all
environment variables via the "set" command. To redirect the output to a file,
use syntax like
set >temp.txt
Jamal
On 7/14/2011 10:36 PM, qubit wrote:
> Greetings.
> I am on windows 7 and am trying to run some batch commands, for which
> I need to know what is the syntax to get at the value of an environment
> variable?
> I try %PATH%, %PATH, and even $PATH like in unix, but it all fails to
> expand the value of the variable.
> Since power shell apparently supports such unix-esque names as ls and
> pwd, I am perplexed how to get it to pick up arguments.
>
> BTW:
> echo $PATH
> prints nothing, whereas the % signs just get passed through as if it
> is not a special syntax, as in a dos window.
>
> So I suppose I'll get rid of power shell and use the dos window where
> the args are predictable.
>
> Now in the time it took to type this I could have done that. Comments
> welcome.
> Thx.
> --le
>
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