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Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
802 pages
19h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting the environment variable for a subprocess

Environment variables are just like any other variables that we have in our programming languages. They have a name and hold some value, which can be varied. These are used by the Linux/Windows commands or the shell/batch scripts to perform different operations. These are called environment variables because they are present in the environment of the process/command/script being executed. Generally, the process inherits the environment variables from the parent process.

They are accessed in different ways in different operating systems. In Windows, they are accessed as %ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_NAME%, and in Unix-based operating systems, they are accessed as $ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_NAME.

In Unix-based ...

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