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What is the Bash equivalent to .zshenv?
I've read that .bashrc (like .zshrc) is meant only for interactive logins (and the one non-interactive exception of remote shells). But where should environment variables for Bash be placed that is (...
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PATH is not empty after /usr/bin/env -i /bin/bash --norc --noprofile
I cannot make sense of the results below:
/tmp/% /usr/bin/env -i /bin/bash --norc --noprofile
bash-5.0$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:.
I expected PATH to be ...
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Passing env variables to a ssh connection
I want to pass enviromental variables to a ssh connection. They should be passed dynamically, therefore hard-coding them into the config file of ssh
won't work for me.
I've tried this:
AAA="...
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Set permanent environment variable for all shells
I want to set the root level environment variable that comes from sh(1) so that it is shared across all shells: sh, bash, zsh, and fish.
I can see in /etc/profile there's a command /usr/libexec/...
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How to capture stderr of function that modifies current environment?
The module function of the Environment Modules1 package does its work by modifying various environment variables of the current shell process.
Unfortunately, this function returns 0 whether it ...
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Storing all environment variables in one file
What are the caveats of having one single file with environment variables?
What I would like to do is to create a file (e.g. ~/.env) which contains all necessary PATH declarations and possibly other ...
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Why can't I print a variable I can see in the output of env?
I am interested in setting environmental variables of one shell instance from another.
So I decided to do some research.
After reading a number of questions about this I decided to test it out.
I ...
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Is there a nice way to set directory/project local environment variables?
I have been working on several projects, and they require different environment variables (e.g., PATH for different versions of clang executables, PYTHONPATH for several external modules). Whenever I ...
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How can I list all shell variables?
Reading about this question: In zsh how can I list all the environment variables?, I wondered, how can I list all the shell variables?
Also, does the distinction between shell variables and ...
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$@ and 'set env $PATH' - Why should this statement go into .inputrc?
I have a line in my .zshrc that says:
set env $PATH
Apparently this affects the value of $@. I have read that $@ should be empty and that I should not have any set statements in my .zshrc (at least ...
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How to print apparently hidden environment variables?
Environment variables can be shown with env; but, some are not shown. For example...
echo $EUID might produce as result of 1000 yet
env | grep EUID produces no result.
What is this type of variable? ...
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OS X setting environment variables
I have OSX 10.8.2 with ZSH as my shell and iTerm as a terminal (don't know if the last thing is relevant). I have to mention that I'm relatively new to OSX.
I'm trying to set up some environment ...
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Inhibit Variable Expansion in Paths
How do I prevent Zshell (and Bash I assume) from expanding environment variables in paths be completed as shown in the following example:
$PREFIX/alt/li
should expand to
$PREFIX/alt/lib
and not to ...
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