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- ." Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
- ." All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
- ." specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
- ."
- ." @(#)environ.7 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/20/85
- ."
- .TH ENVIRON 7 "May 20, 1985"
- .UC 5
- .SH NAME
- environ - user environment
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B "extern char *const *environ;"
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- An array of strings called the `environment' is made available by
- .BR execve (2)
- when a process begins. By convention these strings have the form
- .RI ` name = value '.
- The following names are used by various commands:
- .TP "w'TERMCAP 'u"
- .B PATH
- The sequence of directory prefixes that
- .BR sh ,
- .BR time ,
- .BR nice (1),
- etc., apply in searching for a file known by an incomplete path name.
- The prefixes are separated by `:'.
- Login shells set
- .BR PATH=:/bin:/usr/bin .
- Note that the empty space between the `=' and the `:' indicates the current
- directory. Security aware people move the extra `:' to the end of their
- path or omit it.
- .TP
- .B HOME
- A user's login directory, set by
- .BR login (1)
- from the password file
- .BR passwd (5).
- .TP
- .B TERM
- The kind of terminal for which output is to be prepared.
- This information is used by programs that wish to exploit special
- terminal capabilities, a screen oriented text editor for instance.
- The terminal type is set by
- .BR login (1)
- from the tty database
- .BR ttytab (5).
- .TP
- .B SHELL
- The file name of the users login shell, set by
- .BR login (1)
- from the password file
- .BR passwd (5).
- .TP
- .B TERMCAP
- The string describing the terminal in TERM, or the name of the termcap file,
- see
- .BR termcap (5),
- .BR termcap (3).
- .TP
- .B EXINIT
- A startup list of commands read by
- .BR elvis (1).
- .TP
- .B USER
- The login name of the user, set by
- .BR login (1)
- from the password file
- .BR passwd (5).
- .TP
- .B LOGNAME
- Set to the same value as
- .BR USER .
- BSD derived systems have
- .BR USER ,
- System V has
- .BR LOGNAME ,
- so modern systems have both to avoid problems.
- .TP
- .PP
- Further names may be placed in the environment by the
- .B export
- command and
- .RI ` name = value '
- arguments in
- .BR sh (1).
- Arguments may also be placed in their environment by
- programs if they use
- .BR putenv (3).
- Or in the environment of another program by building a new environment
- for one of the exec functions that accepts an environment list, like
- .BR execle (2)
- or
- .BR execve (2).
- It is unwise to conflict with certain
- .BR sh (1)
- variables that are frequently set and/or exported by `.profile' files:
- .BR MAIL ,
- .BR PS1 ,
- .BR PS2 ,
- .BR IFS .
- .SH SEE ALSO
- .BR elvis (1),
- .BR login (1),
- .BR sh (1),
- .BR execl (2),
- .BR execve (2),
- .BR system (3),
- .BR termcap (3),
- .BR termcap (5),
- .BR ttytab (5).