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Friends,

I'm trying to set the environment variable "asdf" in my Scala shell, as described here

These are my commands:

scala> import scala.sys.process.Process import scala.sys.process.Process scala> Process(Seq("bash", "-c", "echo $asdf"), None, "asdf" -> "Hello, world!").! Hello, world! res18: Int = 0

But when i try to read the environment variable back:

scala> sys.env.get("asdf") res19: Option[String] = None

The output says "None". How do i properly set my environment variable in the current session?

PS - Please do not downvote this; i'm trying really hard but unable to get past my issue

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It has nothing to do with Scala, you are just misunderstanding the situation. The map at the end of the line

scala> Process(Seq("bash", "-c", "echo $asdf"), None, "asdf" -> "Hello, world!").!

doesn't change the environment of of this process, the one you are typing into; it changes the environment of the child process that the Process() function creates.

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Is there a way to set my environment variable for the current process?
@JimitRaithatha -- nope
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It is not permitted for a Scala/Java process to modify its own environment. You can use the scala.util.Properties object to inspect environmental variables and properties. (Docs are here.) The properties can be added/removed/changed but the environmentals cannot.

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