How to set an environment variable in Robot Framework

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Trying to set an env var using robot script

${res}=  Set Environment Variable  ABCDE  12345

But when I check the env vars from my shell, I am not able to find it!

grep-ing the env var key in shell

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Side note: the Set Environment Variable keyword does not return anything. So, it is useless to store the result in a variable — Adrian W
– Adrian W, Commented Apr 12, 2022 at 8:19

Adrian W · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-11 21:20:04Z

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Environment variables are local to the process in which they are created. They are inherited to child processes, but not to parents. That's why you can't see them in the calling process. *ix shells have a special export command to export environment variables, but there is no export feature in Robot Framework. So, AFAIK this is not possible.

answered Apr 11, 2022 at 21:20

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