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PRINTENV(1)							   User Commands						       PRINTENV(1)

NAME
printenv - print all or part of environment SYNOPSIS
printenv [OPTION]... [VARIABLE]... DESCRIPTION
Print the values of the specified environment VARIABLE(s). If no VARIABLE is specified, print name and value pairs for them all. -0, --null end each output line with 0 byte rather than newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printenv, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports. AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Richard Mlynarik. REPORTING BUGS
Report printenv bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report printenv translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 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 printenv is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and printenv programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'printenv invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 PRINTENV(1)

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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. -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. AUTHOR
Written by Richard Mlynarik and David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report env bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report env translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 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 8.5 February 2011 ENV(1)
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