Timeline for Canonical environment variable representing a user's email address
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| S Apr 24, 2014 at 20:47 | history | suggested | dimo414 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 20:44 | vote | accept | dimo414 | ||
| Apr 24, 2014 at 20:43 | comment | added | dimo414 |
"There is no best way" is a perfectly good answer. Oftentimes there is a recommended way or best practice, which is why I was asking. For my use case, I can more easily expect users to have an environment variable set, but I agree a ~/.something configuration file is generally more reasonable.
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 20:30 | history | edited | Bananguin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Tried to explain that the question is to vague for a definitive answer.
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 20:29 | comment | added | Bananguin | And why not as an argument to the script? There is no best way (see edit to my answer), there is only sensible for your intents and purposes. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 20:10 | comment | added | dimo414 | I want to run a script which emails a remote address. It has to be specified somewhere. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 19:48 | comment | added | Bananguin | IMO "the best" way does not involve the users specifying it ... | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 19:43 | history | edited | Bananguin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added an explicit oppinion paragraph as a response to the OPs comments.
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 19:30 | comment | added | dimo414 | The purpose of the script is remote notification, as such local mail is a pretty poor default. The user can safely be expected to specify a remote address they'd like to use. How this is best specified is the question at hand. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 19:28 | history | answered | Bananguin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |