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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers path variables Post 302151829 by sszd on Monday 17th of December 2007 02:23:43 PM
Old 12-17-2007
path variables
I'm looking for an explanation to what appears to be some kind of shell substitution values found in various path environment variables such as PATH, CDPATH, MANPATH, etc. These values appear as things like %T, %S, %N, %L. I'm not sure what these mean, and have searched through a multitude of man pages looking for some sort of explanation. I don't know if they are related specifically to the shell, the OS, or the path variable itself. What I would like to know is, what do these mean, and what are all the possible values? Better yet, what documentation or man pages talk about these so I can read about these myself? Here are some examples of how I've seen these values used.

export CDPATH=:/${HOME}\
:/some_directory_path/some_subdirectory\
:/another_directory_path/another_subdirectory/%N

export SCHEMESEARCHPATH=/net/${DEFAULTHOST}/~/%T/%N%S\
:/usr/atria/config/ui/Schemes/%N%S
 

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