[Haskell-cafe] System.Process

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 15:59 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> On Sep 29, 2008, at 15:49 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>> Herein lies the problem: I have a program that accepts complete  
>>> commands from a file and executes them. It works perfectly. And  
>>> now I'd just like to set an environment variable while each  
>>> command runs... But alas no, the only way to do that is with  
>>> runProcess, which expects me to parse the command line first.  
>>> (Before anybody remarks that "words" will do this, consider the  
>>> "echo" command, which treats whitespace meaningfully.)
>>
>> env FOO=bar mycommand ...
>
> Does that work for Windows?


Only if on of the unix-simulation environments is installed.  I  
wouldn't want to bet on such things working reliably cross-platform  
anyway; even if it works something like the same way, the variable  
names are usually different.

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