GETENV(3) Library Functions Manual GETENV(3)NAME
getenv - value for environment name
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
char *getenv(const char *name)
DESCRIPTION
Getenv searches the environment list (see environ(7)) for a string of the form name=value and returns a pointer to the string value if such
a string is present, otherwise getenv returns the null pointer.
SEE ALSO environ(7), execve(2).
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GETENV(3) Linux Programmer's Manual GETENV(3)NAME
getenv - get an environment variable
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
char *getenv(const char *name);
DESCRIPTION
The getenv() function searches the environment list to find the environment variable name, and returns a pointer to the corresponding value
string.
RETURN VALUE
The getenv() function returns a pointer to the value in the environment, or NULL if there is no match.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
NOTES
The strings in the environment list are of the form name=value.
As typically implemented, getenv() returns a pointer to a string within the environment list. The caller must take care not to modify this
string, since that would change the environment of the process.
The implementation of getenv() is not required to be reentrant. The string pointed to by the return value of getenv() may be statically
allocated, and can be modified by a subsequent call to getenv(), putenv(3), setenv(3), or unsetenv(3).
SEE ALSO clearenv(3), putenv(3), setenv(3), unsetenv(3), environ(7)COLOPHON
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