• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • this topic. The PATHEXT environment variable can change the aforesaid default. COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe support special variables (%0, %1 through %9) in...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • generally provide POSIX compliant interface when the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, but otherwise offers a superset to the standard interface...
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  • or Linux shell environment, by allowing groups of related environment-variable settings to be made or removed dynamically. Modules has been around since...
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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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    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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    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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    command-line editing, a directory stack (pushd and popd), many useful environment variables, command completion, and more." Eventually it supported "regular...
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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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    for expanding file paths (with wildcards and brace expansion), environment variables, and command-specific completions. Command-specific completions...
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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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    (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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  • 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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    HOME environment variable to store settings (e.g. $HOME/.w3m for the w3m browser). The dynamic linker provides an environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • working directory; and finally the directories specified by the PATH environment variable. Applications written for the .NET Framework (since 2002), also check...
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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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  • TMPDIR (category Environment variables)
    TMPDIR is the canonical environment variable in Unix and POSIX that should be used to specify a temporary directory for scratch space. Most Unix programs...
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  • through IF ERRORLEVEL commands. Multiuser DOS supports a reserved environment variable %ERRORLVL% which gets automatically updated on return from applications...
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