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submitted 1 year ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

hello friends,

I am looking for a way to do what I described in the title. When running command command, I dont want to have to type SOME_ENV_VAR=value command every time, especially if there are multiple.

I am sure youre immediately thinking aliases. My issue with aliases is that if I do this for several programs, my .bashrc will get large and messy quickly. I would prefer a way to separate those by program or application, rather than put them all in one file.

Is there a clean way to do this?

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[-] deong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Just replace command in your script with /usr/bin/command or whatever. It’s generally good practice to full path anything run from a script anyway just to remove any unintended environment dependencies.

[-] oscar@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Good point. But then if both the script and the command have the same filename, it will be important to make sure the script has a higher precedence in the PATH. Adding it to the end of .bashrc should be enough I think.

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