Tuesday, December 15, 2020

How To Create A Wrapper Script With Customized Environment

When working in a team, everyone will have to conform and work in a same environment. But there are times that, a certain script of yours needs a different environment in order to run. An example would be, everyone in the team has their python version set to 2.7.13. But for some reason, you have a python script that will only work with python 3. Having a wrapper script that customize the environment before running your script would solve this issue. Here's how the wrapper script will look like
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#!/bin/tcsh -f

setenv BNR_PATH /some/special/path/
setenv BNR_BIN /another/special/path/bin
setenv BNR_ROOT /special/root/path

/path/to/your/script.py $argv:q

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