Is it possible to find out which files are setting/adding to environment variables, and their order of precedence?
Some of my environment variables ($PATH, $MANPATH and friends) are partially set up in different source files.
environment-variables
How is the C library able to access environment variables?
How do functions like getenv(3) access the environment when my program doesn’t have any references to the environment?
What are the environment variables by default?
When starting a bash shell process, what are the default environment variables, except those specified in the startup file?
Strange environment variable !::=:: in Cygwin
Using Cygwin, I installed Environment Modules by downloading source code, running configure, make, and make install. Every time I run a module command, I get:
Why does environment variable persistence break the PATH var?
I tried to persist the environment variables for ORACLE in RedHat using /etc/environment.
How to assign result of sed to variable
Below is a complete copy of a demo I’m using to to figure out to get the sed command to get rid of the spaces in a persons name, and compress it down to not have spaces.
Why is my BASH_FUNC_foobar%% environment variable unset in shell subprocesses?
I’m messing around with the security of a setuid binary (with the intention of disclosing anything I find to the author, obviously). I’m pretty sure it has an arbitrary code execution vulnerability because it invokes a shell script and it doesn’t sanitize the environment – I thought of bash’s export -f but I can’t actually make a proof of concept work.
Is there a bash builtin command which can show the environment variables of the current shell?
env and printenv are both external commands i.e. executable files, not bash builtins.
The problem with them is that some environment variables (such as _, and I also wonder if there are more) which they output don’t belong to the shell which invokes them, see here.
Setting PATH vs. exporting PATH in ~/.bash_profile
export does set the $PATH explicitly.
What is DISPLAY=:0?
What is DISPLAY=:0 and what does it mean? It isn’t a command, is it? (gnome-panel is a command.) DISPLAY=:0 gnome-panel Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as advisements. If you found the post … Read more