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Hi Dirk,
Thank you for your suggestion.  I did not use it because John Sinclair offered an "EDM" solution:
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use this form:
/opt/myarea/bin/<env:ARCH>/command
which works.
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Zen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Zimoch [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:14 AM
> To: Szalata, Zenon M.
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: ENV Variables in EDM
> 
> Hi Zen,
> 
> I am not familiar with EDM, but this looks like the shell, not EMD is
> executing "/opt/myarea/bin/$(ARCH)/command". For the shell, $(xxx)
> means: execute command "xxx" and use its stdout output as a value. Try
> ${ARCH} or $ARCH instead.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
> Szalata, Zenon M. wrote:
> > I would like to be able to specify command path using an environment
> > variable in the Shell Command widget.
> >
> > For example I would like to have path like this:
> >
> > /opt/myarea/bin/$(ARCH)/command
> >
> > where ARCH is an environment variable.  In my case it can have value
> > arch-32 or arch-64 value.
> >
> > When I do that I get an error message:
> >
> >
> >
> > sh: arch-32: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >
> > How can this be done?
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Zen
> >

References:

ENV Variables in EDM Szalata, Zenon M.

Re: ENV Variables in EDM Dirk Zimoch

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