What is an Environment Variable?

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What is an Environment Variable?..

Answer / sumit

Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values
that can affect the way running processes will behave on a
computer.

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What is an Environment Variable?..

Answer / chakri

c shell sopports environmenal variable. different types of
environment variables are HOME,PATH,TERM,SHELL.....ETC.,

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What is an Environment Variable?..

Answer / usama el far

a set of variables which affect the commands execution and
hold many values it need.some times we need to change it /
some times by scripts / programs

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What is an Environment Variable?..

Answer / giridhar tarare

Environment variable are a set of variable and you can
change the value anytime or you pass any value given
Variable.

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