Dave Land wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Dave Land wrote:
>
> > Happily, Apple provided a utility that handles it for you:
> >
> > defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment"
>
> Actually, making this work in bash (or other shell) requires a little
> more than just reading the file... Here's the relevant chunk from
> my .bashrc:
>
> # Get environment variables from ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
> # (This avoids the sin of duplicating data here and in that file)
> if [[ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]] ; then
> defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment | grep -v '[{}]' | tr '"' "'" |
> awk '{ print "declare -x",$1"="$3 }' | while read -r OneLine; do eval
> $OneLine; done;
> fi
>
> To give credit where it's due, this came from a comment on
> macosxhints.com.
>
> The conditional (if [[ `uname` == "Darwin' ]]) is because I use this
> same .bashrc across several hosts, including Solaris, Linux, and Mac
> OS X.
This issue comes up often enough that it deserves a section in the help.
Could you perhaps write some text? If you can send me a patch that
would be great.
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