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GETENV

GETENV

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE CONFORMING TO SEE ALSO


NAME

getenv - get an environment variable

SYNOPSIS

#include name);

DESCRIPTION

The getenv() function searches the environment list for a string that matches the string pointed to by name. The strings are of the form name = value.

RETURN VALUE

The getenv() function returns a pointer to the value in the environment, or NULL if there is no match.

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

putenv(3), setenv(3), unsetenv(3), environ(7)


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