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env - run a program in a modified environment

Author

       Written by Richard Mlynarik, David MacKenzie, and Assaf Gordon.

Description

       Set each NAME to VALUE in the environment and run COMMAND.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -a, --argv0=ARG
              pass ARG as the zeroth argument of COMMAND

       -i, --ignore-environment
              start with an empty environment

       -0, --null
              end each output line with NUL, not newline

       -u, --unset=NAME
              remove variable from the environment

       -C, --chdir=DIR
              change working directory to DIR

       -S, --split-string=S
              process and split S into separate arguments; used to pass multiple arguments on shebang lines

       --block-signal[=SIG]
              block delivery of SIG signal(s) to COMMAND

       --default-signal[=SIG]
              reset handling of SIG signal(s) to the default

       --ignore-signal[=SIG]
              set handling of SIG signal(s) to do nothing

       --list-signal-handling
              list non default signal handling to stderr

       -v, --debug
              print verbose information for each processing step

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

       A mere - implies -i.  If no COMMAND, print the resulting environment.

       SIG  may  be a signal name like 'PIPE', or a signal number like '13'.  Without SIG, all known signals are
       included.  Multiple signals can be comma-separated.  An empty SIG argument is a no-op.

   Exitstatus:
       125    if the env command itself fails

       126    if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked

       127    if COMMAND cannot be found

       -      the exit status of COMMAND otherwise

Name

       env - run a program in a modified environment

Notes

       POSIX's exec(3p) pages says:
              "many existing applications wrongly assume that they start with certain signals set to the default
              action  and/or  unblocked....  Therefore,  it  is best not to block or ignore signals across execs
              without explicit reason to do so, and especially not to block signals across  execs  of  arbitrary
              (not closely cooperating) programs."

Options

-S/--split-stringusageinscripts
       The -S option allows specifying multiple parameters in a script.  Running a script named 1.pl  containing
       the following first line:

              #!/usr/bin/env -S perl -w -T
              ...

       Will execute perl-w-T1.pl.

       Without the '-S' parameter the script will likely fail with:

              /usr/bin/env: 'perl -w -T': No such file or directory

       See the full documentation for more details.

   --default-signal[=SIG]usage
       This  option  allows  setting  a  signal  handler  to its default action, which is not possible using the
       traditional shell trap command.  The following example ensures that seq will be terminated by SIGPIPE  no
       matter how this signal is being handled in the process invoking the command.

              sh -c 'env --default-signal=PIPE seq inf | head -n1'

Reporting Bugs

       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

See Also

sigaction(2), sigprocmask(2), signal(7)

       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/env>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) env invocation'

GNU coreutils 9.5                                  April 2025                                             ENV(1)

Synopsis

env [OPTION]... [-] [NAME=VALUE]... [COMMAND [ARG]...]

See Also