ENV(1)                                                     User Commands                                                     ENV(1)

NAME
       env - run a program in a modified environment

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

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

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

       -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.

OPTIONS
   -S/--split-string usage in scripts
       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 -T 1.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'

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 un‐
              blocked.... 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."

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

REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  ©  2022  Free  Software  Foundation,  Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU  GPL  version  3 or later <https://gnu.org/li‐
       censes/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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 9.1                                           January 2023                                                     ENV(1)