NAME¶

envstore—save and restore environment variables

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

envstorecan save and restore environment variables, thus transferring them betweendifferent shells.

commandmust be one of

clear

Forget all stored variables

eval

Produce shell code for evaluation, restoring all saved variables

list

List saved variables in better readable format

savevariable[value]

Savevariableeither with its current shell value or withvalue

rmvariable

Removevariablefrom store

Note: Only the first character ofcommandis checked, soenvstoreeinstead ofenvstoreeval,envstorecforenvstoreclear,etc., are also valid.

For convenience, the options--versionand--helpare also supported.

ENVIRONMENT¶

ENVSTORE_FILE

The file in which the environment parameters are stored,/tmp/envstore-EUIDby default,

LIMITATIONS¶

Variable names or values must not contain null bytes or newlines.

Due to limitations imposed by most shells, it is not possible to saveparameters containing more than one consecutive whitespace.envstorewill save and display them correctly, but unless you doIFStrickery, your shell will not be able to load them.

The current maximum length (in bytes) is 255 bytes for the variable nameand 1023 bytes for its content.

AUTHOR¶

envstorewas written by
Daniel Friesel⟨derf@derf.homelinux.org⟩.

Original idea and script by
Maximilian Gass⟨mxey@ghosthacking.net⟩.

SEE ALSO¶

envify(1)