Shell variables in menus?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Jun 10 12:44:01 PDT 2020


----- Original Message -----
> From: "William J. McEachran" <bill.mceachran at gmail.com>

> I use that method all the time from a menu shell script.
> What is the getenv command being used?

::bt(25,*)=getenv("BATCHTAG"):

> Alternative is to pass the datestamp on the command line using one of the
> -r flags.

Yeah, but the whole point of the endeavour is for that tag to be the same for
the entire scope of the menu, calling multiple dreport's.

Cheers,
-- jra
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