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Running a command repeatedly with different environment

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Let's say I want to run the process foo with different variables set, like:

FOO=1 foo

FOO=2 foo

FOO=1 BAR=7 foo

How can do do this without repeating the foo command repeatedly? E.g., by looping over the environment to set, like:

for e in 'FOO=1' 'FOO=2' 'FOO=1 BAR=7'; do

  env "$e" foo

done

That almost works, except in the case with $e equal to FOO=1 BAR=1, FOO gets set to 1 BAR=1 and BAR doesn't get set at all because env sees a single argument. I could use env $e, i.e., without quoting e - but then it doesn't work if the variable values have spaces.

bash environment-variables

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Let's say I want to run the process foo with different variables set, like:

FOO=1 foo

FOO=2 foo

FOO=1 BAR=7 foo

How can do do this without repeating the foo command repeatedly? E.g., by looping over the environment to set, like:

for e in 'FOO=1' 'FOO=2' 'FOO=1 BAR=7'; do

  env "$e" foo

done

That almost works, except in the case with $e equal to FOO=1 BAR=1, FOO gets set to 1 BAR=1 and BAR doesn't get set at all because env sees a single argument. I could use env $e, i.e., without quoting e - but then it doesn't work if the variable values have spaces.

bash environment-variables

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Let's say I want to run the process foo with different variables set, like:

FOO=1 foo

FOO=2 foo

FOO=1 BAR=7 foo

How can do do this without repeating the foo command repeatedly? E.g., by looping over the environment to set, like:

for e in 'FOO=1' 'FOO=2' 'FOO=1 BAR=7'; do

  env "$e" foo

done

That almost works, except in the case with $e equal to FOO=1 BAR=1, FOO gets set to 1 BAR=1 and BAR doesn't get set at all because env sees a single argument. I could use env $e, i.e., without quoting e - but then it doesn't work if the variable values have spaces.

bash environment-variables

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FOO=1 foo

FOO=2 foo

FOO=1 BAR=7 foo

for e in 'FOO=1' 'FOO=2' 'FOO=1 BAR=7'; do

  env "$e" foo

done

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You are not going to get much shorter. If the issue is that the command you want to run is long, you might write a helper function, e.g.

r(){ env "$@" foo with lots of args ; }

r FOO=1

r FOO=2

r FOO=1 BAR=7

r FOO='1 BAR=7'

If there is a character you know is not going to be in either the names or the values of the environment variables you could use this to split, or you can attempt to quote the values correctly and use eval.

The question is why do you want to do this?

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  The question is why do you want to do this? To avoiding the repeating the foo command (which is much more complex than just foo). Also to allow the possibility of having tested loops, e.g. 5 possible environments in one list, and 3 in another, and then nested loops to try all 5*3=15 combinations.
  
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You are not going to get much shorter. If the issue is that the command you want to run is long, you might write a helper function, e.g.

r(){ env "$@" foo with lots of args ; }

r FOO=1

r FOO=2

r FOO=1 BAR=7

r FOO='1 BAR=7'

If there is a character you know is not going to be in either the names or the values of the environment variables you could use this to split, or you can attempt to quote the values correctly and use eval.

The question is why do you want to do this?

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answered 2 hours ago

icarusicarus

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  The question is why do you want to do this? To avoiding the repeating the foo command (which is much more complex than just foo). Also to allow the possibility of having tested loops, e.g. 5 possible environments in one list, and 3 in another, and then nested loops to try all 5*3=15 combinations.
  
  – BeeOnRope
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

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You are not going to get much shorter. If the issue is that the command you want to run is long, you might write a helper function, e.g.

r(){ env "$@" foo with lots of args ; }

r FOO=1

r FOO=2

r FOO=1 BAR=7

r FOO='1 BAR=7'

If there is a character you know is not going to be in either the names or the values of the environment variables you could use this to split, or you can attempt to quote the values correctly and use eval.

The question is why do you want to do this?

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

icarusicarus

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  The question is why do you want to do this? To avoiding the repeating the foo command (which is much more complex than just foo). Also to allow the possibility of having tested loops, e.g. 5 possible environments in one list, and 3 in another, and then nested loops to try all 5*3=15 combinations.
  
  – BeeOnRope
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

You are not going to get much shorter. If the issue is that the command you want to run is long, you might write a helper function, e.g.

r(){ env "$@" foo with lots of args ; }

r FOO=1

r FOO=2

r FOO=1 BAR=7

r FOO='1 BAR=7'

If there is a character you know is not going to be in either the names or the values of the environment variables you could use this to split, or you can attempt to quote the values correctly and use eval.

The question is why do you want to do this?

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

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r(){ env "$@" foo with lots of args ; }

r FOO=1

r FOO=2

r FOO=1 BAR=7

r FOO='1 BAR=7'

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answered 2 hours ago

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answered 2 hours ago

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