Want to access UNIX environment variable

Thu Feb 28 06:04:57 UTC 2013

Let me put what I want to achieve.

Before that I want to know what is this 'env' global directive for?

I want to maintain a single set of configuration files for dev and prod. The
machines would have environment variable set ENV=dev or ENV=prod. Based on
the values of the ENV varibale I wanted to pick my upstream conf, either
upstream_dev.conf or upstream_prod.conf through 'include
upstream_$ENV.conf'.

Please suggest an approach.

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