On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:46:37PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> I need to use cron to run some job. I know that cron only set up very
> basic environment. I'd like to duplicate my login environment.
Just source /etc/profile and your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile (or
whatever) from the script that your
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:46:37PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
>> I need to use cron to run some job. I know that cron only set up very
>> basic environment. I'd like to duplicate my login environment.
>
> Just source /etc/profile and your ~/.bash_p
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:46:37PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
>> I need to use cron to run some job. I know that cron only set up very
>> basic environment. I'd like to duplicate my login environment.
>
> Just source /etc/profile and your ~/.bash_p
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 10:29:52AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> I sourced my ~/.bashrc, which source some other files. It seems the
> environment variables defined in these files are not seen with env.
> Why is so?
Without seeing the code? Impossible to say. But you're doing it backwards.
~/.bashrc s
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 10:29:52AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
>> I sourced my ~/.bashrc, which source some other files. It seems the
>> environment variables defined in these files are not seen with env.
>> Why is so?
>
> Without seeing the code?
On 11/09/2011 10:14 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
variable assignment VAR=blah.
That sets up a bash-local variable. If you want it to be exported to
the environment visible to child processes, then you _also_ need to use
export, as in either:
VAR=blah
export VAR
or
export VAR=blah
However, VAR i
