• An environment variable is a user-definable value that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. Environment variables are part...
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  • PATH is an environment variable on Unix-like operating systems, DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, specifying a set of directories where executable programs...
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  • scientific journal Environment (type theory), the association between variable names and data types in type theory Deployment environment, in software deployment...
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  • all global variables is known as the global environment or global state. In compiled languages, global variables are generally static variables, whose extent...
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  • can be used similar to environment variables, but are not stored in the environment. Microsoft and IBM refer to these variables as replacement parameters...
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    A variable is considered dependent if it depends on an independent variable. Dependent variables are studied under the supposition or demand that they...
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  • The parameter may be set either on the command-line, or through an environment variable. Similar to the classic dynamic loading behavior, when executing...
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    syntax for file matching. Variable completion is the completion of the name of a variable name (environment variable or shell variable). Bash, zsh, and fish...
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    appear in the PATH environment variable. Under Unix, commands also need be marked as executable files. The directories in the path variable are searched in...
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  • regular arguments (unless the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set). This environment variable enables a different functionality in BSD. See the...
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  • COMSPEC or ComSpec is one of the environment variables used in DOS, OS/2 and Windows, which normally points to the command line interpreter, which is...
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  • the command line, individual environment variables that are inherited by other processes, and all environment variable expansions. Quotation marks are...
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    related to how Bash passes function definitions to subshells through environment variables. As a command processor, Bash operates within a text window where...
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    defines CGI using C, in saying that environment variables "are accessed by the C library routine getenv() or variable environ". The name CGI comes from...
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    library from files or environment variables. The TERM environment variable contains the terminal type name. The TERMCAP environment variable may contain a termcap...
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    consists of a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that influence run-time behavior. OpenMP is managed by the nonprofit...
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    for expanding file paths (with wildcards and brace expansion), environment variables, and command-specific completions. Command-specific completions...
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    Env (category Environment variables)
    a list of environment variables or run another utility in an altered environment without having to modify the currently existing environment. Using env...
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  • string defining an environment variable. Each null-terminated string has the form: name=value where name is the environment variable name, and value is...
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    concatenated to the end of function definitions stored in the values of environment variables. Within days of its publication, a variety of related vulnerabilities...
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  • In computer programming, a variable is an abstract storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity...
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    part of ordinary system maintenance. In Unix-like systems the TZ environment variable specifies the location name, as in TZ=':America/New_York'. In many...
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    compiling if it is not already cached by using the CCACHE_PREFIX environment variable. icecream was created by SUSE based on distcc. Like distcc, icecream...
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  • DT_RUNPATH attribute does not exist. The (colon-separated) paths in the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, unless the executable is a setuid/setgid binary...
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    (Mountain Lion) and later offers choices for values of the TERM environment variable. Available options are ansi, dtterm, nsterm, rxvt, vt52, vt100, vt102...
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    programming languages like C/C++, Python, Java, PHP, as well as for environment variables. The use of underscores as word separators dates back to the late...
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  • back to their home directory). The environment variable PWD (in Unix/Linux shells), or the pseudo-environment variables CD (in Windows COMMAND.COM and cmd...
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    files for COMMAND.COM can have four kinds of variables: Environment variables: These have the %VARIABLE% form and are associated with values with the...
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  • Environment Modules system is a tool to help users manage their Unix or Linux shell environment, by allowing groups of related environment-variable settings...
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  • on GNU variants can also use the environment variable LANGUAGE instead. Its main difference from the Unix variable is that it supports multiple languages...
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