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LC_ALL Determines the locale to be used to override any values for locale categories specified
by the settings of LANG or any environment variables beginning with
LC_.
LC_CTYPE Determines the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for
example, single versus multibyte characters in values for vendor-defined attributes).
LC_MESSAGES
Determines the language in which messages should be written.
LC_TIME Determines the format of dates (create_date and mod_date ) when displayed by
swlist. Used by all utilities when displaying dates and times in
stdout, stderr,
and
logging.
TZ Determines the time zone for use when displaying dates and times.
Environment variables that affect scripts:
SW_CATALOG
Holds the path to the Installed Products Database (IPD), relative to the path in the
SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY
environment variable. Note that you can specify a path for the
IPD using the
installed_software_catalog
default option.
SW_CONTROL_DIRECTORY
Defines the current directory of the script being executed, either a temporary catalog
directory, or a directory within in the Installed Products Database (IPD). This variable
tells scripts where other control scripts for the software are located (for example, sub-
scripts).
SW_CONTROL_TAG
Holds the tag name of the control_file being executed. When packaging software, you can
define a physical name and path for a control file in a depot. This lets you define the
control_file with a name other than its tag and lets you use multiple control file
definitions to point to the same file. A control_file can query the
SW_CONTROL_TAG
variable to determine which tag is being executed.
SW_LOCATION
Defines the location of the product, which may have been changed from the default pro-
duct directory. When combined with the SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY
, this variable tells
scripts where the product files are located.
SW_PATH A PATH variable which defines a minimum set of commands available for use in a control
script (for example, /sbin:/usr/bin
).
SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY
Defines the root directory in which the session is operating, either "/" or an alternate root
directory. This variable tells control scripts the root directory in which the products are
installed. A script must use this directory as a prefix to SW_LOCATION to locate the
product’s installed files. The configure script is only run when
SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY is
/.
SW_SESSION_OPTIONS
Contains the pathname of a file containing the value of every option for a particular com-
mand, including software and target selections. This lets scripts retrieve any command
options and values other than the ones provided explicitly by other environment vari-
ables. For example, when the file pointed to by SW_SESSIONS_OPTIONS is made avail-
able to a request script, the targets option contains a list of software_collection_specs for
all targets specified for the command. When the file pointed to by
SW_SESSIONS_OPTIONS is made available to other scripts, the targets option contains
the single software_collection_spec for the targets on which the script is being executed.
SW_SOFTWARE_SPEC
This variable contains the fully qualified software specification of the current product or
fileset. The software specification allows the product or fileset to be uniquely identified.
RETURN VALUES
swask returns one of these codes:
0 Command successful on all targets
1 Command failed on all targets
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