I'm trying to temporarily set the system wide proxy option which is available as GUI in the Network Settings through bash script. I only want the proxy to be applicable while the script is running and has to reset to no proxy when the script ends. So, basically, I am looking for something like:
----Script Start----
Change Proxy to a predefined IP, port combination
Run
On close, reset proxy
----Script End-----
Now, I saw something on setting the environment variable but I am not sure how to apply this temporarily.
1 Answer
Type the following command to set proxy server in linux command line.
export http_proxy=
Put a back tick character (`) before and after that command so that bash will execute the EXPORT command.
Note: 1.2.3.4 is your proxy server ip address and 3128 is the port for example.
To remove the variable value, use this command.
unset VARIABLE_NAME
Exmaple:
unset http_proxy
