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.)

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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
------------------+-------------------------------------------------------


** 1999-08-04 RELEASE 2.42

- Clearly distinguish errors from warnings.

- Error reporting wasn't: repaired.

- Fixed malformed REx detected by perl 5.5.58.


** 1999-07-21 RELEASE 2.41

- Re-search ENVY_PATH when assigned in the First dimension.

- Avoid whoami.


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


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