environment variable

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Definition of environment variable in English Turkish dictionary

çevre değişkeni

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Definition of environment variable in English English dictionary

data which is stored in a DOS environment under a unique name and which determines details about a work environment

A string consisting of environment information, such as a drive, path, or filename, associated with a symbolic name that can be used by Windows NT and Windows 2000 Use the System option in Control Panel or the set command from the command prompt to define environment variables

A variable that contains information about the setup of your session Typical examples of environment variables are TERM, which states which kind of terminal you use, and USER, which states your user name Environment variables are set with the command setenv, which uses the syntax

A symbol containing information that can be used by shells or commands Environment variables are available to all processes in a given process group; they are propagated by the creation of a child process Contrast with process variable

Environment information, such as a drive, path, or filename, associated with a symbolic name that can be used by MS-DOS You use the MS-DOS SET command to define environment variables

A storage location in the environment of the shell Every variable consists of a name (usually written in capital letters) and a value (such as pathname) If you use the bash shell, a variable is set as follows

A variable set in the operating system's command shell Perforce utilizes environment variables that are passed to the p4 client or p4d server

An element of a system or product-specific configuration file used to specify the path to a processing component or to control some aspect of system or product operation For example, you use an environment variable in the OSS profile file to specify the location of the NonStop™ DOM configuration file

A global "setting", or configuration parameter, which is available to all applications Each environment variable has a name and a value (which usually is a string of symbols or an integer number) Any application you run can access any of the environment variables For example, there is a standard environment variable HOME, whose value is the user's home directory (for example, /home/joe), and any application which wants to create a file in your home directory uses this variable to find out what your home directory is To view all currenlty defined environment variables, use the command printenv (provided that you have GNU shell utils package installed) To modify a value of environment variable, use the command export NAME= VALUE; if you are using bash shell or setenv NAME VALUE; if you are using csh or tcsh shell

In the AIX and SunOS operating systems, a name for a data item that is used by a process AIX and SunOS environment variables can correspond to VS FORTRAN unit numbers

A string of specific value that controls a certain attribute of an application Environment variables are made available to the application as it begins

A shell variable that is defined and stored in the operating system environment, and is accessible by any program you run

a variable that defines an aspect of your working environment such as your home directory, editor or printer These variables are set during the login procedure

A variable that describes the operating environment of the process

A variable set in the UNIX shell environment to which an application may make reference For example, used to specify the Solstice EM MIS to which an Solstice EM service connects

(n ) The UNIX® C shell environment variables are similar to shell variables, except that environment variables can be passed to every C shell that runs Many applications use environment variables to set configuration directories, specify base directories for commands or data, and pass other information about the user environment to the program

A system or user defined variable which provides information about your environment (such as your home directory, what shell you are running, or the name of the machine that you are logged into) to shells or programs An example would be $HOME, which tells you what your home directory is You can view them by typing [joe@fred]$ echo $HOME /home/username which in this case shows us what the value of $HOME is

Named variables managed by the operating system shell and used to store information and communicate between programs Apache also contains internal variables that are referred to as environment variables, but are stored in internal Apache structures, rather than in the shell environment See: Environment Variables in Apache

An environment variable is one of a collection of variables stored by the operating system, each one having a name and a value Emacs can access environment variables set by its parent shell, and it can set variables in the environment it passes to programs it invokes See section AE 5 Environment Variables

A variable that specifies how an operating system or another program will run

A system- or user-defined variable that provides information about the operating environment to the shell

Any of a number of variables that describe the way an operating system is going to run or the devices it is going to recognize IBM

親プロセスから子プロセスに対して受け渡される値．ENVでアクセスされる． 子プロセスに渡るのは環境変数のコピーなので， 子プロセスから親プロセスに環境変数を使って情報を受け渡すことはできない． 親はなかなか子供に耳を傾けないものである． Value which is delivered from parent process to offspring process It is accessed with ENV What is delivered to the offspring process is a copy of the environment variable, so it is not possible to pass informations from the offspring process to the parent by using the environment variable The parent will not listen to the child -SugHimsi

A variable set in the user's shell which can be referenced by that user or programs run by that user within that shell Environment variables are generally used to store preferences and default parameters

Values that can be set to help automatically get your computer into a state ready for you to use Environment variables are part of your operating system's machinations and are specific to the operating system you run

Hyphenation

en·vi·ron·ment va·ri·a·ble

Turkish pronunciation

învayrınmınt veriıbıl

Pronunciation

/ənˈvīrənmənt ˈverēəbəl/ /ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt ˈvɛriːəbəl/