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-Various Environmental Variables you can set, and what they do. You can display their current settings by using the command
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-;ASPELL_CONF: Configuration file for aspell, see aspell(1)
-;APT_CONFIG: see apt.conf(5)
-;BROWSER: The users prefered browser (see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER/)
-;BZIP2: Command line arguments for BZIP2
-;BZCAT: Command line arguments for bzcat
-;COLUMNS: Number of columns on the screen
-;DEAD: used by Mail(1) apparently.
-;DISPLAY: Current
[X(1)
] display
-;EDITOR: Users prefered program to edit text files
-;ftp_proxy: ftp proxy server, see apt.conf(5)
-;HOME: Home directory
-;HOSTALIASES: Path to host aliases file, see hostname(7).
-;HOSTFILE: Path to /etc/hosts
-;IFS: Internal Field Seperator, used for word splitting in shells, see bash(1)
-;INPUTRC: Path to .inputrc file. see bash(1)
-;LANG: The name of the locale to use for locale categories. See locale(5)
-;LC_ADDRESS: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_ALL: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_COLLATE: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_CTYPE: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_IDENTIFICATION: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_MESSAGES: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_NAME: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_NUMERIC: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_MEASUREMENT: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_MONETARY: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LC_PAPER: Locale Paper size, see locale(1)
-;LC_TELEPHONE: Locale settings, see locale(1)
-;LD_AOUT_LIBRARY_PATH: LD_LIBRARY_PATH for a.out binaries
-;LD_AOUT_PRELOAD: LD_PRELOAD for a.out binaries
-;LD_BIND_NOW: Disable lazy linking, see [ld.so(8)]
-;LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Path to search for libraries, see [ld.so(8)]
-;LD_PRELOAD: Libraries to load before all others, see [ld.so(8)]
-;LD_NOWARN: Suppress warnings of a.out minor version differences, see [ld.so(8)]
-;LD_KEEPDIR: Don't ignore directory names of a.out libraries. see [ld.so(8)]
-;LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS: Give ldd output instead of running, see [ld.so(8)]
-;LESS: options passed to less(1) automatically
-;LESSANSIENDCHARS: see less(1)
-;LESSBINFMT: see less(1)
-;LESSCHARDEF: Charset definition for less(1)
-;LESSCHARSET: Charset used by less(1) to display.
-;LESSCLOSE: see less(1)
-;LESSECHO: see less(1)
-;LESSEDIT: Editor used by less(1)
-;LESSGLOBALTAGS: see less(1)
-;LESSKEY: Name of the lesskey(1) file
-;LESSKEY_SYSTEM: Name of the system wide lesskey(1) file
-;LESSMETAESCAPE: see less(1)
-;LESSOPEN: less(1) preprocessor
-;LESSSECURE: Put less(1) into secure mode.
-;LESSSEPERATOR: used by less(1)
-;LINES: Number of lines on the screen
-;LISTER: Used by Mail(1), obsolete version of PAGER?
-;LOCALDOMAIN: Local domain, see hostname(7)
-;LOGNAME: The name of the logged in user
-;LPDEST: Default printer
-;MAIL: File for the shell to check for mail, see bash(1)
-;MAILCHECK: How often to check for mail, see bash(1)
-;MAILPATH: Files for the shell to check for mail, see bash(1)
-;MALLOC_CHECK_: Change the implementation of malloc(3) to catch more bugs.
-;MANPATH: Path to search for man pages
-;MBOX: Path to mbox file? see Mail(1)
-;NPRINTER: Default printer, see lpr(1)
-;NGPRNTER: Default printer, see lpr(1)
-;PAGER: The users prefered pager program
-;PATH: Path to search for programs
-;[POSIXLY_CORRECT]: Makes programs/libraries adhere to strict [POSIX] requirements.
-;PRINTER: Default printer
-;PROMPTCOMMAND: Command for the shell to run every time it displays a prompt, see bash(1)
-;PS1: Shell prompt, see bash(1)
-;PS2: Shell prompt, see bash(1)
-;PS3: Shell prompt, see bash(1)
-;PS4: Shell prompt, see bash(1)
-;PWD: Process Working Directory (set by some shells)
-;REPLYTO: Used by Mail(1), reply to address?
-;RESOLV_HOST_CONF: Filename of /etc/host.conf. see [resolv+(8)], [host.conf(5)]
-;RESOLV_SERV_ORDER: Overrides "order" keyword in /etc/host.conf, see [resolv+(8)]
-;RESOLV_SPOOF_CHECK: Sets Spoof Checking see [resolv+(8)]
-;RESOLV_ADD_TRIM_DOMAINS: Adds to Trim Domains, see [resolv+(8)]
-;RESOLV_OVERRIDE_TRIM_DOMAINS: Overrides Tirm Domains from /etc/host.conf, see [resolv+(8)]
-;RESOLV_MULTI: Overrides "multi" keyword from /etc/host.conf, see [resolv+(8)]
-;RESOLV_REORDER: Overrides the "reorder" keyword from /etc/host.conf, see [resolv+(8)]
-;SHELL: The users shell
-;SSH_ASKPASS: Used by ssh(1)
-;SSH_AUTH_SOCK: Used by ssh(1)
-;SSH_CLIENT: Used by ssh(1)
-;SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND: Used by ssh(1)
-;SSH_TTY: Used by ssh(1)
-;SYSTEM: Operating System, used by apropos(1)
-;TERM: The terminal type
-;TERMCAP: Terminal type
-;TIMEFORMAT: format of the time(1) command, see time(1) and bash(1)
-;TMOUT: Timeout for shells to log you out, see bash(1)
-;TMPDIR: Directory for temp files, see tempnam(3), sort(1) etc
-;TZ: Set TimeZone information, tzset(1)
-;TZDIR: Set TimeZone information
-;USER: The currently logged in user
-;VISUAL: The users prefered visual editor
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-make(1) often uses the name of the command as a path to that command, eg: CC, BISON, YACC, LEX, FLEX, F77, LD etc, so variables named after the command should be avoided. make(1) also uses the "FLAGS" suffix for default flags to pass a command, eg: CFLAGS, LDFLAGS etc
.
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-Some good environmental variables to set, and what to set them to:
+Describe
[EnvironmentalVariables
] here
.
