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| author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org> | 2019-06-07 08:00:32 +0300 |
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| committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org> | 2019-06-07 08:00:32 +0300 |
| commit | c33922f128403f5d05d24f19abeaad2368ce5467 (patch) | |
| tree | 89ffecf0abbb4fedca962da0b79f0f850179e09f /NEWS | |
| parent | cc533e2c6b86b62db169f912b4e7891273061c77 (diff) | |
| download | pies-c33922f128403f5d05d24f19abeaad2368ce5467.tar.gz pies-c33922f128403f5d05d24f19abeaad2368ce5467.tar.bz2 | |
Implement additional env.eval statement
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU Pies NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2019-06-06 +GNU Pies NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2019-06-07 See the end of file for copying conditions. Please send Pies bug reports to <bug-pies@gnu.org> or @@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ variables matching the pattern are retained. Sets the environment variable for the component. VALUE is subject to variable expansion. +** eval "VALUE" +Perform variable expansion on VALUE and discard the result (similar +to the shell ":" command). Useful for side effects, e.g.: + + eval ${HOME:=/home/t} + ** unset NAME Unsets the variable. NAME can be a globbing pattern, in which case all variables matching the pattern are unset. |