How to get an environment variable from OS in class ?

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How to get an environment variable from OS in class ?
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An example of a Java application that does this is Ant, when you add a line like this in your build.xml:

<property environment="env"/>
I have looked at the source code of Ant 1.3, especially the file src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Execute.java. Look at the methods getProcEnvironment() and getProcEnvCommand(). Ant uses an OS-dependent trick to get the environment variables.
You can download the Ant source code from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant
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while( (line = br.readLine()) != null ) {
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String key = line.substring( 0, idx );
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// System.out.println( key + " = " + value );
return envVars;
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