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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers echo $SHELL, $PWD and etc. Post 33105 by Neo on Tuesday 17th of December 2002 04:32:59 AM
Old 12-17-2002
It might be useful to compare the output of set with the output of env

Are they different? If so, why?
 

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ENV(1)								   User Commands							    ENV(1)

NAME
env - run a program in a modified environment SYNOPSIS
env [OPTION]... [-] [NAME=VALUE]... [COMMAND [ARG]...] DESCRIPTION
Set each NAME to VALUE in the environment and run COMMAND. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -i, --ignore-environment start with an empty environment -0, --null end each output line with 0 byte rather than newline -u, --unset=NAME remove variable from the environment --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit A mere - implies -i. If no COMMAND, print the resulting environment. GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report env translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by Richard Mlynarik and David MacKenzie. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for env is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and env programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'env invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 ENV(1)
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