Sick of an endlessly growing PATH? Me too! Envy does shell-independent environment variable management. Envy tries to avoid being ambitious. It is designed as a narrow tool to solve a specific and practical problem without going wildly overboard. Its modest scope includes: * A mechanism is provided for setting and prepending environment variables in a variety of flexible ways. All modifications are reversible. * Standardized crontab wrapper. * Optional .profile and .login setup. Available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JPRIT/ ! (Probably requires perl 5.004_05 but older version might work too.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's what it looks like: [joshua@grdevl137] ~% envy dailydb-dev imag-dbo-testdb x dev imag-dev-2513 dev-area-setup imag-dev-2519 fame imag-prod framemaker java x fvwm95-2.0.43a objstore gcc x openwin gems-1.9.1-dev printing gems-2.0-dev prod gems-2.0.alpha.14 prod-new gems-dev research gems-intl-rpts x reuters gems-prod solaris imag-2519 sunpro ... 'x' indicates that the environement file is loaded in the current shell. Also, you can look at dependencies like this: ------------------+------------------------------------------------------- DIMENSION | ENVY ------------------+------------------------------------------------------- First | qsg | openwin | printing p4 | qsg-p4 3boink | 3boink-prod | objstore objstore | objstore-5.1 | qsg-build10 | sunpro sunpro | SUNWspro-4.2 | cc-tools ------------------+------------------------------------------------------- ** 1999-07-14 RELEASE 2.40 - Doc tweaks. (cpan-testers: Don't bother, this is the same as 2.39.) ** 1999-07-14 RELEASE 2.39 Many suggestions from redletter@iname.com: - Sane exit statuses for envy.pl. - Change 'echo' to just print instead of acting like a warning. - Upgraded "Variable '$var' not set" to be an error instead of a warning. Also, -strict option to upgrade all warnings to errors. - Documentation clean up. ** 1999-06-21 RELEASE 2.38 - Built okay with 5.004_05. Update documentation. see ./INSTALL for hints on installation see ./UPGRADE if you are starting from a prior releases see ./TODO for a list of stuff in the tuit queue see ./CHANGES for a visionary perspective Send any questions or comments to envy@listbox.com. If you'd like to subscribe to this mailing list, send email to majordomo@listbox.com. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 1997-1999 Joshua Nathaniel Pritikin. All rights reserved. This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)