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#125387 - 2004-08-19 09:00 PM Environment variables
Jose Jose Seasoned Scripter Registered: 2001-04-04 Posts: 693 Loc: Buenos Aires - Argentina	Hi Korgers !! how are you guys doing? Is there a way to see "all" the environment variables available in an NT/2000/XP system? I am looking forward to make more use of them. Thanks!. _________________________ Life is fine.
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#125388 - 2004-08-19 09:03 PM Re: Environment variables
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	what about fire up command prompt shell and type "set" in it? in normal windows that's what you have. with never windows, like windows 2003 you have some extra... like: %time% _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#125389 - 2004-08-19 09:10 PM Re: Environment variables
Jose Jose Seasoned Scripter Registered: 2001-04-04 Posts: 693 Loc: Buenos Aires - Argentina	Thanks very much Jooel. _________________________ Life is fine.
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#125390 - 2004-08-19 09:21 PM Re: Environment variables
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	no problem, green-man! _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#125391 - 2004-08-19 09:22 PM Re: Environment variables
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	You could never see ALL of the available variables since anyone can create whatever they want. For example, if you typed: SET JOSE=COOL You would have one that probably nobody else has. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#125392 - 2004-08-19 09:41 PM Re: Environment variables
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	but then, set would reveal that too, no? _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#125393 - 2004-08-19 09:51 PM Re: Environment variables
Jose Jose Seasoned Scripter Registered: 2001-04-04 Posts: 693 Loc: Buenos Aires - Argentina	Thanks for the tip Les. Very nice of you. _________________________ Life is fine.
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#125394 - 2004-08-19 10:33 PM Re: Environment variables
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Quote: but then, set would reveal that too, no? He asked for ALL "NT/2000/XP system" so no, unless he ran around and SET all of them to be the same... It is like asking for all the words in the dictionary... would depend on what dictionary in what language and what year. And them we need to talk about all the made up words too. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#125395 - 2004-08-19 10:38 PM Re: Environment variables
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	les, I'm glad you are my "friend"! if you was my enemy, you would have good arguments for my disposal to get un-serious, you are right, ofcourse. his wording will be interpreted like that if taken from word to word. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#125396 - 2004-08-20 09:57 AM Re: Environment variables
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	For the sake of completeness you should know that some environment variables are virtual, so won't appear in "set". They also won't be available to KiXtart. Some examples are %RANDOM%, %ERRORLEVEL%, %TIME% and %DATE%. These are only available when referenced within a DOS shell command interpreter, so you can use them in batch files and on the command line. {edit} Just noticed Jooel already mentioned %TIME% in his earlier post. {/edit} Edited by Richard H. (2004-08-20 10:00 AM)
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#125397 - 2004-08-20 10:18 AM Re: Environment variables
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	richard, do you know is there a reference about these? and what windows consoles support that? I got scared when played with my backup script and noticed server2003 supported these. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#125398 - 2004-08-20 10:28 AM Re: Environment variables
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	I found them some time back using "set /?". %ERRORLEVEL% was available in NT 4 (although it is not mentioned), the others appeared in Win2K. If you set the environment variables yourself then they override the dynamic ones, so any scripts you have that use them will continue to work.
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#125399 - 2004-08-20 10:40 AM Re: Environment variables
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	hmm... think errorlevel has been there "always" and yes, the others indeed work in my w2k box _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#125400 - 2004-08-20 10:57 AM Re: Environment variables
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	Quote: hmm... think errorlevel has been there "always" and yes, the others indeed work in my w2k box No, the crap ERRORLEVEL has pretty much always been there (as in IF ERRORLEVEL...), but the environment variable %ERRORLEVEL% has not. It won't work in a Win95 or NT 3.51 box, for example. If you can find one.
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