Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt 'env' command to get environment variables

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 02:38:14PM -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
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> [quilt-dev mailing list's insipid Reply-To: munging noticed and
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> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:12:43 -0700, Greg KH <address@hidden> wrote:
> > So I came up with 'quilt env', a simple dump of the environment
> > variables that quilt runs with, that any other script can then take and
> > use as needed.
> 
> Hi Greg:
> 
> Why not just 'quilt shell <shell-command>', where that command can be
> env. Then you can do other things like 'quilt shell echo $QUILT_FOO'.
> Or 'quilt shell pwd' (run after locating the project root).

That's one way to do this, but is that overkill?  I can implement that
if needed, but other than showing the environment variables, what could
you do with that command that would be useful?

thanks,

greg k-h