ENV

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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 NUL, not newline

-u, --unset=,NAME/

remove variable from the environment

-C, --chdir=,DIR/

change working directory to DIR

--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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report env translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 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

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/env>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) env invocationaq

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SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

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