Bash Check some of the system environmental variables
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#!/bin/bash
# Check some of the system's environmental variables. # If, for example, $USER, the name of the person at the console, is not set, #+ the machine will not recognize you.
: ${HOSTNAME?} ${USER?} ${HOME?} ${MAIL?} echo echo "Name of the machine is $HOSTNAME." echo "You are $USER." echo "Your home directory is $HOME." echo "Your mail INBOX is located in $MAIL." echo echo "If you are reading this message," echo "critical environmental variables have been set." echo echo
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# The ${variablename?} construction can also check #+ for variables set within the script.
ThisVariable=Value-of-ThisVariable # Note, by the way, that string variables may be set #+ to characters disallowed in their names. : ${ThisVariable?} echo "Value of ThisVariable is $ThisVariable". echo echo
: ${ZZXy23AB?"ZZXy23AB has not been set."} # If ZZXy23AB has not been set, #+ then the script terminates with an error message.
# You can specify the error message. # : ${ZZXy23AB?"ZZXy23AB has not been set."}
# Same result with: dummy_variable=${ZZXy23AB?} # dummy_variable=${ZZXy23AB?"ZXy23AB has not been set."} # # echo ${ZZXy23AB?} >/dev/null
echo "You will not see this message, because script terminated above."
HERE=0 exit $HERE # Will *not* exit here.
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