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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-02-13 13:24:56 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-02-13 13:24:56 +0000
commitc31258d7d802b845900374fd13f1219e729aaba8 (patch)
tree160fc1c6783099933437e2a683f4d380bb722f85 /share/man
parent477e2a0cb7bb32a1c4b53737de7b05f71b758582 (diff)
- Add PWD.
- Remove reference to non-existent edit(1) command. - Xr env(1) - The default PATH in OpenBSD includes more than just /usr/bin:/bin. - Other misc cleanup.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/environ.769
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/environ.7 b/share/man/man7/environ.7
index 44eec731eb9..b525ad060bb 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/environ.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/environ.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: environ.7,v 1.6 1999/07/09 13:35:37 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: environ.7,v 1.7 2000/02/13 13:24:55 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: environ.7,v 1.4 1995/07/03 19:45:07 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993
@@ -48,35 +48,33 @@ An array of strings called the
is made available by
.Xr execve 2
when a process begins. By convention these strings have the form
-.Dq Ar name Ns No = Ns Ar value .
-The following names are used by various commands:
+.Ar name Ns No = Ns Ar value .
+The following variables are recognized by various commands:
.Bl -tag -width BLOCKSIZE
.It Ev BLOCKSIZE
The size of the block units used by several commands, most notably
.Xr df 1 ,
-.Xr du 1
+.Xr du 1 ,
and
.Xr ls 1 .
-.Ev BLOCKSIZE
-may be specified in units of a byte by specifying a number,
+May be specified in units of a byte by specifying a number,
in units of a kilobyte by specifying a number followed by
-.Dq K
+.Sq K
or
-.Dq k ,
+.Sq k ,
in units of a megabyte by specifying a number followed by
-.Dq M
+.Sq M
or
-.Dq m
-and in units of a gigabyte by specifying a number followed
+.Sq m ,
+or in units of a gigabyte by specifying a number followed
by
-.Dq G
+.Sq G
or
-.Dq g .
+.Sq g .
Sizes less than 512 bytes or greater than a gigabyte are ignored.
.It Ev EXINIT
-A startup list of commands read by
-.Xr ex 1 ,
-.Xr edit 1 ,
+A list of startup commands read by
+.Xr ex 1
and
.Xr vi 1 .
.It Ev HOME
@@ -88,37 +86,50 @@ from the password file
The sequence of directories, separated by colons, searched by
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr sh 1 ,
+.Xr ksh 1 ,
.Xr system 3 ,
.Xr execvp 3 ,
etc. when looking for an executable file.
-Initially,
-.Ev PATH
-is set to
-.Dq /usr/bin:/bin
+Initially set to the value of
+.Dv _PATH_DEFPATH
by
-.Xr login 1 .
+.Xr login 1 ,
+traditionally
+.Pa /usr/bin:/bin ,
+but expanded to include
+.Pa /usr/sbin ,
+.Pa /sbin ,
+.Pa /usr/X11R6/bin ,
+and
+.Pa /usr/local/bin
+in
+.Ox .
.It Ev PRINTER
The name of the default printer to be used by
.Xr lpq 1 ,
.Xr lpr 1 ,
and
.Xr lprm 1 .
+.It Ev PWD
+The current working directory.
.It Ev SHELL
The full pathname of the user's login shell.
.It Ev TERM
The kind of terminal for which output is to be prepared.
This information is used by commands such as
.Xr nroff 1
-or
+and
.Xr plot 1
-which may exploit special terminal capabilities. See
+which may exploit special terminal capabilities.
+See
.Pa /usr/share/misc/termcap
.Pq Xr termcap 5
for a list of terminal types.
.It Ev TERMCAP
-The string describing the terminal in TERM, or, if
-it begins with a
-.Dq / ,
+The string describing the terminal in
+.Ev TERM ,
+or, if it begins with a
+.Ql / ,
the name of the termcap file.
See
.Ev TERMPATH
@@ -134,7 +145,7 @@ no
is equivalent to a
.Ev TERMPATH
of
-.Dq $HOME/.termcap:/etc/termcap .
+.Pa $HOME/.termcap:/etc/termcap .
.Ev TERMPATH
is ignored if
.Ev TERMCAP
@@ -171,7 +182,7 @@ command and
arguments in
.Xr sh 1 ,
or by the
-.Xr setenv
+.Ic setenv
command if you use
.Xr csh 1 .
It is unwise to change certain
@@ -187,6 +198,7 @@ and
unless you know what you are doing.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr csh 1 ,
+.Xr env 1 ,
.Xr ex 1 ,
.Xr login 1 ,
.Xr sh 1 ,
@@ -194,6 +206,7 @@ unless you know what you are doing.
.Xr execle 3 ,
.Xr system 3 ,
.Xr termcap 3 ,
+.Xr tzset 3 ,
.Xr termcap 5
.Sh HISTORY
The