Category : Batch File Utilities - mostly for DOS
Archive   : RBSETENV.ZIP
Filename : SETENV.C
* setenv.c - set values in the parent environment
*
* Author: R. Brittain 4/11/90
* Popen() is taken from code obtained from simtel20
* Recommended wildcard expansion code to use with this is wildargv.c by
* Frank Whaley and placed in the public domain
* Environment location/manipulation borrowed from various places, but now
* mangled beyond recognition
*
* Syntax:
* setenv variable value......
*
* Description:
* The command line is iteratively scanned for command substitutions in `...`
* and environment variables (%var), and the resulting text used as the value
* of the environment variable named in the first argument.
* Command substitutions are performed by calling system(), which loads a
* shell to run the the command. If the first character of the command is '@'
* the command is exec'ed directly (much faster than calling system, but
* only works with .exe and .com files)
*
* The magic characters %,`, and @ are set by #defines so you can change
* them if you don't like them (comsub.h)
*
* This code placed in the public domain
*
* Revision history
* 1.0 Dec 90 RB - first posted to usenet
* 1.01 Jan 91 RB - fixed argument parsing so `.....` can span multiple
* arguments without needing to be double quoted
* - fixed location of environment for pre DOS 3.3 lowest level
* command.com
*
*/
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include "comsub.h"
/* prototypes */
int get_env_index(char *var, char **env_var);
int getenvseg(unsigned *envseg);
unsigned get_env_var(unsigned env_addr, char ***env_var, int *count);
void put_env_var(unsigned env_addr, unsigned seglen, char **env_var);
void fatal(char *msg, int status);
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char version[] = "setenv version 1.01 of "__DATE__ ;
char usage[] = "Usage: setenv variable value\n";
unsigned env_addr, seglen;
int index, i, count;
char *value, **env_var;
if (argc == 1)
fatal(usage,1);
if ( !getenvseg(&env_addr))
fatal ("Cannot locate environment\n",2);
/* process command line for back-quotes and unexpanded env. vars. */
rebuild_argv(&argc,&argv);
/* convert variable to upper case for compatibility */
strupr(argv[1]);
seglen = get_env_var( env_addr, &env_var, &count );
index = get_env_index( argv[1], env_var );
if (index == count) env_var[index+1] = (char *)NULL;
if (argc == 2) {
/* no value specified - take as a request to remove this entry */
value = "";
} else {
/* set the value of the variable to the rest of the arguments */
value = (char *) malloc(strlen(argv[1]) + 2);
strcpy(value,argv[1]);
strcat(value,"=");
for (i=2; i < argc; i++) {
value = (char *) realloc(value, strlen(value) + strlen(argv[i]) + 2);
strcat(value,argv[i]);
strcat(value," ");
}
*(endptr(value)-1) = '\0';
}
env_var[index] = value;
put_env_var(env_addr, seglen, env_var);
return(0);
}
void fatal(char *msg, int status)
{
fputs(msg,stderr);
exit(status);
}
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