Read Bash environment variable in TCL

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galvin Verghese picture galvin Verghese · Apr 1, 2011 · Viewed 40.9k times · Source

How to read a shell environment variable in your Tcl script. So anyone please help me. I am very new in TCL.

Answer

TrojanName picture TrojanName · Apr 1, 2011

Use $::env to access any environment variables e.g. to access the TMP environment variable do this:

set tmpdir $::env(TMP)

More info here http://wiki.tcl.tk/1624

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