Re: [Help-smalltalk] How to access environment variables ?

[Stephen]

Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote:
> I would like to be able to get at all of the environment variables 
> (whether it is the shell environment variables or the CGI environment 
> variables or something else).  What object/class would I use for that ?

There is a way of getting it with an OS call...

$ gst
GNU Smalltalk ready

st> | pipe |
st> pipe := FileStream popen: 'set'  dir: FileStream read
<Pipe on set>
st> pipe contents
'AUTO_SYMLINK=no
BASH=/bin/sh
BASH_ARGC=()
BASH_ARGV=()
BASH_EXECUTION_STRING=set
BASH_LINENO=()
BASH_SOURCE=()
....




In code, something like:
    osCall: cmd [
        | pipe |
        pipe := FileStream popen: cmd dir: FileStream read.
        ^pipe contents.
    ]


Then call it like:-

Transcript show: (osCall: 'set').
or
Transcript show: (osCall: 'ls -l').



Stephen