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ENV

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Exit status:
SCRIPT OPTION HANDLING
NOTES
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
SEE ALSO

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.
-a , --argv0 = ARG

pass ARG as the zeroth argument of COMMAND

-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

-S , --split-string = S

process and split S into separate arguments; used to pass multiple arguments on shebang lines

--block-signal [= SIG ]

block delivery of SIG signal(s) to COMMAND

--default-signal [= SIG ]

reset handling of SIG signal(s) to the default

--ignore-signal [= SIG ]

set handling of SIG signal(s) to do nothing

--list-signal-handling

list non default signal handling to stderr

-v , --debug

print verbose information for each processing step

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

A mere - implies -i . If no COMMAND, print the resulting environment.

SIG may be a signal name like ’PIPE’, or a signal number like ’13’. Without SIG, all known signals are included. Multiple signals can be comma-separated. An empty SIG argument is a no-op.

Exit status:

	125		if the env command itself fails
	126		if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
	127		if COMMAND cannot be found
	-		the exit status of COMMAND otherwise

SCRIPT OPTION HANDLING

The -S option allows specifying multiple arguments in a script. Running a script named 1.pl containing the following first line:

#!/usr/bin/env -S perl -w -T
...

Will execute perl -w -T 1.pl

Without the ’-S’ parameter the script will likely fail with:

/usr/bin/env: ’perl -w -T’: No such file or directory

See the full documentation for more details.

NOTES

POSIX’s exec (3p) pages says:

"many existing applications wrongly assume that they start with certain signals set to the default action and/or unblocked.... Therefore, it is best not to block or ignore signals across execs without explicit reason to do so, and especially not to block signals across execs of arbitrary (not closely cooperating) programs."

AUTHOR

Written by Richard Mlynarik, David MacKenzie, and Assaf Gordon.

REPORTING BUGS

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