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committer | 1998-11-28 03:38:01 +0000 | |
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share/man/man7/ man page repairs
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diff --git a/share/man/man7/environ.7 b/share/man/man7/environ.7 index 38cae40a7ee..97d12602b24 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/environ.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/environ.7 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: environ.7,v 1.4 1998/11/28 03:38:01 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: environ.7,v 1.4 1995/07/03 19:45:07 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 @@ -43,11 +44,11 @@ .Ar extern char **environ ; .Sh DESCRIPTION An array of strings called the -.Ar environment +.Dq environment is made available by -.Xr execve 2 +.Xr execve 2 when a process begins. By convention these strings have the form -.Dq Ar name=value . +.Dq Ar name Ns No = Ns Ar value . The following names are used by various commands: .Bl -tag -width BLOCKSIZE .It Ev BLOCKSIZE @@ -56,44 +57,58 @@ The size of the block units used by several commands, most notably .Xr du 1 and .Xr ls 1 . -BLOCKSIZE may be specified in units of a byte by specifying a number, -in units of a kilobyte by specifying a number followed by ``K'' or -``k'', in units of a megabyte by specifying a number followed by ``M'' -or ``m'' and in units of a gigabyte by specifying a number followed -by ``G'' or ``g''. +.Ev BLOCKSIZE +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 +or +.Dq k , +in units of a megabyte by specifying a number followed by +.Dq M +or +.Dq m +and in units of a gigabyte by specifying a number followed +by +.Dq G +or +.Dq 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 , +.Xr ex 1 , +.Xr edit 1 , and -.Xr vi 1 . +.Xr vi 1 . .It Ev HOME A user's login directory, set by -.Xr login 1 +.Xr login 1 from the password file -.Xr passwd 5 . +.Xr passwd 5 . .It Ev PATH The sequence of directories, separated by colons, searched by -.Xr csh 1 , -.Xr sh 1 , -.Xr system 3 , -.Xr execvp 3 , -etc, when looking for an executable file. -PATH is set to ``/usr/bin:/bin'' initially by -.Xr login 1 . +.Xr csh 1 , +.Xr sh 1 , +.Xr system 3 , +.Xr execvp 3 , +etc. when looking for an executable file. +Initially, +.Ev PATH +is set to +.Dq /usr/bin:/bin +by +.Xr login 1 . .It Ev PRINTER The name of the default printer to be used by -.Xr lpr 1 , -.Xr lpq 1 , +.Xr lpq 1 , +.Xr lpr 1 , and -.Xr lprm 1 . +.Xr lprm 1 . .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 +This information is used by commands such as +.Xr nroff 1 or .Xr plot 1 which may exploit special terminal capabilities. See @@ -102,13 +117,15 @@ which may exploit special terminal capabilities. See for a list of terminal types. .It Ev TERMCAP The string describing the terminal in TERM, or, if -it begins with a '/', the name of the termcap file. +it begins with a +.Dq / , +the name of the termcap file. See .Ev TERMPATH below, -.Xr termcap 5 , +.Xr termcap 5 , and -.Xr termcap . +.Xr termcap . .It Ev TERMPATH A sequence of pathnames of termcap files, separated by colons or spaces, which are searched for terminal descriptions in the order listed. Having @@ -117,7 +134,7 @@ no is equivalent to a .Ev TERMPATH of -.Dq Pa $HOME/.termcap:/etc/termcap . +.Dq $HOME/.termcap:/etc/termcap . .Ev TERMPATH is ignored if .Ev TERMCAP @@ -125,16 +142,16 @@ contains a full pathname. .It Ev TMPDIR The directory in which to store temporary files. Most applications use either -.Dq /tmp +.Pa /tmp or -.Dq /var/tmp . +.Pa /var/tmp . Setting this variable will make them use another directory. .It Ev TZ The timezone to use when displaying dates. The normal format is a pathname relative to -.Dq /usr/share/zoneinfo . +.Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo . For example, the command -.Dq env TZ=US/Pacific date +.Ic env TZ=US/Pacific date displays the current time in California. See .Xr tzset 3 @@ -150,15 +167,15 @@ Deprecated synonym of Further names may be placed in the environment by the .Xr export command and -.Ar name=value +.Ar name Ns No = Ns Ar value arguments in -.Xr sh 1 , +.Xr sh 1 , or by the .Xr setenv command if you use -.Xr csh 1 . +.Xr csh 1 . It is unwise to change certain -.Xr sh 1 +.Xr sh 1 variables that are frequently exported by .Pa .profile files, such as @@ -180,6 +197,6 @@ unless you know what you are doing. .Xr termcap 5 .Sh HISTORY The -.Nm environ +.Nm manual page appeared in .Bx 4.2 . |