Re: example implementation (was: Re: DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg.

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> I tried to implement this but failed somehow. Could somebody give a small
> example how to do it in perl?
> 
> task: Set a environment variable and run a program which options are in an
> array in this environment.

Um..

well, if you're simply trying to pass environment variables to a program,
the perl might look like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# modify environment and run command

$ENV{'ARCH_X_Y_Z'} = 'a-b-c';

system($ARGV[1]);

..or have I misunderstood?..

Jules


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