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Alkis Kalogeris
Alkis Kalogeris

Reputation: 17745

SETX set environment variables from a file

I want to set some environment variables that are specified in a file. Using setx works fine for one environment at a time, but how can I pipe a file with the below contents

FOO bar
BAR foo

I was thinking something like this

setx < cat envvars.txt

but of course it doesn't work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 613

Answers (2)

Robio
Robio

Reputation: 31

Slight modification to the accepted answer if you created file.txt using:

SET >> file.txt

Get-Content file.txt | Foreach-Object {SETX $_.split("=")}

Upvotes: 1

user4317867
user4317867

Reputation: 2448

You're looking for a Foreach-Object loop to start SETX along with the current item within the loop.

An example:

Get-Content c:\file.txt | Foreach-Object {SETX [Options] $_}

We get the contents of a file, c:\file.txt, and for every item use SETX

Upvotes: 1

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