March 2003
Beginner
432 pages
11h 30m
English
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Setting Shell Environment Variables
An environment variable is a magical piece of invisible data that is acted upon by shell programs and utilities that look for its existence. They’re innocent enough and you rarely interact with them, but they can prove to be quite powerful and time saving when used as part of your daily lifestyle.
Smart developers who care about code integrity use something called a versioning system to ensure a system of checks and balances, easy reversion to previous code, and preventive overwriting (by an automatic or manual merging process). It’s such a common part of a developer’s toolkit that the popular open source web IDE Sourceforge.net provides it as a default service.
One annoyance of Concurrent
Versioning System (CVS) (longtime users can find many more) is the
command line — without an enviroment variable, you have to type
your cvsroot each and every time you make any
changes to your repository:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.amphetadesk.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/amphetadesk login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.amphetadesk.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/amphetadesk co AmphetaDesk
These two lines log you into a CVS server as the user anonymous and
then check out the entire source tree of a program called
AmphetaDesk. A cursory examination shows that the largest part of the
command line is the -d flag; it’s
also repetitive, as it needs to be a part of every
cvs command. It can make a person nuts when she has to worry about committing modifications to ...
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