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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.
Custom *per directory* Environment Variables
It's a long story why I needed this, but I did. First, we create a little Perl program which can read a YAML file (it's simple now, but might get extended in the future).
#!/usr/bin/perl
use YAML::Tiny 'LoadFile';
exit unless -e '.dev';
my $yaml = LoadFile('.dev');
my $env = $yaml->{env} || {};
while ( my ( $var, $value ) = each %$env ) {
# make it easy for the shell to parse
print "$var\t$value\n";
}
The YAML file might look something like this:
---
env:
TEST_DB: some_db
TEST_USER: some_user
TEST_PASS: some_pass
And then in a bash script named "script/env_setup.sh":
#!/usr/bin/bash
while read env_var value; do
export $env_var="$value"
done < <(perl -Ideps/lib/perl5 script/env_setup.pl)
And the coup-de-grace, in your
function cd {
builtin cd "${@}"
if [ -f./script/env_setup.sh ]; then
source./script/env_setup.sh
fi
}
Please don't tell anyone I told you.
I pour myself a cup of strong coffee. :-)
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
don't forget... (Score:1)
Also, I'd recommend an echo statement if the env was changed so you don't forget that it is happening.
Might help in the future if you have an env related bug and forgot about this...
And, thanks for the hint. I've been opening multiple terminals and setting up my "environment" for some items that I work on. May change based on this, since those changes are highly correlated to the directory structure I use for projects.
Re: (Score:2)
I deliberately left pushd and popd out because our env_setup actually does a heck of a lot more (like build separate test databases for each branch) and I use those for "alternate" navigation (though I know I can just do "builtin cd" :).
The echo statement is a great idea, though. Thanks.
Another wrinkle to consider ... (Score:2)
You probably want to have 'cd' also undo those environment changes when you change out of a directory that has that magic file in it. That's important if you're using this to do things like mess around with $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Nice trick though.
Recently solved the same problem (Score:1)
I just wrote a handful of bash functions to scratch this same itch, which also include some handy bash array functions and drhyde's suggestion of unsetting on exit.
If you're interested, this code is at http://github.com/cxreg/cxregs-bash-tools [github.com]
Re: (Score:2)
Thanks. That looks useful.