Re: Environment Bash

From: Floyd Davidson (floyd_at_barrow.com)
Date: 08/25/03 

Date: 25 Aug 2003 07:06:14 -0800

"Marco de Boer" <marco_de_boer@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Why is getenv("OSTYPE") NOT working? (among others like COLUMNS,LINES)
>Why is getenv("USER") working? (among others like PATH,HOME)
>I am using Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo) and gcc 3.2.2
>
>Marco
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>
>int main()
>{
> printf("%s\n",getenv("PATH")); // OK
> printf("%s\n",getenv("OSTYPE")); // NOT OK: null
> return 0;
>}

  NAME
       getenv - get an environment variable

  SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       char *getenv(const char *name);

  DESCRIPTION
       The getenv() function searches the environment list for a
       string that matches the string pointed to by name. The
       strings are of the form name = value.

  RETURN VALUE
       The getenv() function returns a pointer to the value in
       the environment, or NULL if there is no match. 

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Floyd L. Davidson           <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@barrow.com