[Cook] Passing Environment variables to scripts ?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:47, John Darrington wrote:
> I've got a function which calls a shell script like:
>
> function run-script =
> {
>         [ print Running Script [ @1 ] ] ;
>  [shell [@1]];
> }
>
> but I want the script to be called with certain environment variables
> set.  How can I do this?  I've tried numerous things similar to:
>
>
> function run-script =
> {
>         [ print Running Script [ @1 ] ] ;
>  [shell FOO=xyzzy [@1]];
> }
>
> But none of them seem to do the business.  Maybe cook should have a
> setenv function to complement its getenv ?

Try using env, eg..
env FOO=bar xyz

ISTR cook doesn't use a shell to run commands so FOO= won't work.


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