I want to run some executable on Windows using PowerShell. Path to this executable should be resolved with environment variable. For example running command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe as $Env:SystemRoot\system32\cmd.exe I have tried this option and it raises following exception At line:1 char:16 + $Env:SystemRoot\system32\cmd.exe + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unexpected token ‘\system32\cmd.exe’ in expression or statement. + CategoryInfo : ParserError:… Read More Running EXE file with environment variable in path (PowerShell)

I have recently started off with Linux, and am having some confusion with how to set something to PATH, I went through many wikis, but things aren’t getting cleared, like I wanted to know what is the difference between putting things into the .bashrc file and /etc/environment file, and do we put the directory paths… Read More Adding stuffs to PATH in Linux

js and i’m getting error with accessing data from .env file. my file structure looks like this: enter image description here in .utils folder i have file mail.js where i need to access port and other data from .env mail.js require("dotenv").config({ path: "../.env" }); const port = process.env.email_port; const host = process.env.email_host; const user =… Read More not getting data from .env file in node.js

I’m on Windows 10 trying to code in Python and store variables into environment variables. When I do ‘set example=123’, the command goes through with no issues that i can see, but when i go to type ‘set’ on its own so I can see what is stored, I get this: PS C:\Users\Abrahim\Desktop\New file> set… Read More How do i view my environment variables in Windows 10 VS Code or PyCharm terminal?

I’ve just added Lua to my enviroment variables, but now, every time I need to run a lua command, I have to write lua52 main.lua. My question is, is there a way to change that command so that I can write lua main.lua instead? >Solution : Yes you can rename lua52.exe into lua.exe.

I have a Node.js app that I want running on a Digital Ocean droplet, however, I have a few environmental variables that I need to be using. Is it safe for me to create a .env file on it to store the variables? (If no, how do I go about doing this?) Because I know… Read More Environmental Variables in Digital Ocean Droplets

When I execute this node.js application… if(process.env.ENV_ARG === "someValue") { console.log("conditional works…"); } else { console.log(`ENV_ARG => ${process.env.ENV_ARG}`); } with the following script… "scripts": { "dev": "SET ENV_ARG=someValue && node index.js" }, the output is: ENV_ARG => someValue I can’t understand why the if statement evaluates to false. When the contents of process.env.ENV_ARG are logged… Read More Why can't I perform conditionals on environment variables in a node.js application

I am having trouble exporting multiple env variables in a for loop of a bash script. The full script looks something like: IFS_old="$IFS" IFS=’;’ test_data="secret1=’data1′;secret2=’data2′;secret3=’data3’" for secret in $test_data do eval "export $secret" done IFS="$IFS_old" So the input string consists of variables and their values separated by a semicolon. I loop through it and want… Read More Exporting multiple variables in a for loop

I want to use my env variable inside the docker compose file. When I try to run it I get this error for every variable in there like they weren’t defined: The password variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Some context: Docker-compose: version: ‘3.3’ services: mysqldb: image: mysql:8 restart: always env_file: config.env… Read More Docker compose won't use .env variables [NodeJS, Docker]