Explain what are environmental variables?

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Editor Staff asked 9 months ago

Explain what are environmental variables?

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Editor Staff answered 9 months ago

Environmental variables are global settings that control the shell’s function as well as that of other Linux programs. Another common term for environmental variables is global shell variables.