[Luckless]

I have no idea where to post this, but here looked like a good choice. So, I'm working with Hudson. For those of you who don't know, it's a job manager that can manage just about any project with the use of Shell scripts and cron. So, for one of my applications, I need to pass an environmental variable 'spring.profiles.active'. It works great in eclipse where it doesn't matter, but Hudson uses a Korn shell which doesn't like periods in the env var name. Anybody know a workaround? I know this is kinda obscure, but I'm not an expert in shell scripting. To avert extra questions, it MUST be named this and can't be changed.

[GWatt]

I don't believe most *nix shells support having periods in the variable name. Why can't this variable be changed?

edit:
Actually, with some playing around I discovered that you can set and environment variable with the env command before you run a process.

env spring.profiles.active=some.value program_to_run

This post has been edited by GWatt: 12 July 2012 - 09:11 AM