Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 05:54:23 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing documented bug in env(1) Message-ID: <200106040454.f544sNS59621@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Mark Valentine's message of Jun 4, 5:41am
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> $ clearenv() { env - sh -c "$*"; } # cheap and nasty to illustrate
Hmm, my point was as clear as mud there. I was trying to show that "env -"
performs a useful function, but a program which performs this function has
no need to duplicate the shell's ability to _assign_ environment variables.
Cheers,
Mark.
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