Environment Objects

The environment objects are provided to access environment variables. Note that you are inspecting the environment of the application executing the relevance clause (typically the BigFix Agent/Client), which may or may not match the environment of other applications on the computer.

environment

Environment variables define a particular set of paths and variables for a computer or an application. These Inspectors let you examine this set.

Creation Methods

Declaration	Description	Platforms (?)
environment	Returns an object corresponding to the currently defined set of environment variables. Example: exists environment - TRUE if the computer has an environment object.	Win, Lin, Sol, HPUX, AIX, Mac, Ubu:8.1
environment of <process>	Returns the environment of the specified process.	Lin:8.0, Sol:8.0, Ubu:8.1

Properties

Declaration	Return type	Description	Platforms (?)
variable <string> of <environment>	<environment variable> Plural: variables	Returns an environment variable that matches the given name.	Win, Lin, Sol, HPUX, AIX, Mac, Ubu:8.1
variable of <environment>	<environment variable> Plural: variables	Iterates through all the environment variables defined.	Win, Lin, Sol, HPUX, AIX, Mac, Ubu:8.1

environment variable

Every variable defined by the environment has both a name and a value. Both names and values are treated as strings.

Creation Methods

Declaration	Description	Platforms (?)
variable <string> of <environment>	Returns an environment variable that matches the given name. Example: value of variable "path" of environment contains "\extras\" - TRUE if there is an environment variable named "path" and its value contains "\extras\". Example: value of variable "PATH" of environment contains "/sbin" - TRUE if there is an environment variable named "PATH" and its value contains "/sbin". Example: value of variable "PATH" of environment contains "/sbin" - TRUE if there is an environment variable named "PATH" and its value contains "/sbin". Example: value of variable "PATH" of environment contains "/sbin" - TRUE if there is an environment variable named "PATH" and its value contains "/sbin".	Win, Lin, Sol, HPUX, AIX, Mac, Ubu:8.1
variable of <environment>	Iterates through all the environment variables defined. Example: number of variables of environment - Returns the total number of variables in the environment space.	Win, Lin, Sol, HPUX, AIX, Mac, Ubu:8.1

Properties

Declaration	Return type	Description	Platforms (?)
<environment variable> as string	<string>	Casting the variable as a string yields a string containing the variable name and the value of the variable separated by ' = '.	Win, Lin, Sol, HPUX, AIX, Mac, Ubu:8.1
name of <environment variable>	<string> Plural: names	Returns the name of the variable.	Win, Lin, Sol, HPUX, AIX, Mac, Ubu:8.1
value of <environment variable>	<string> Plural: values	Returns the value of the variable.	Win, Lin, Sol, HPUX, AIX, Mac, Ubu:8.1

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