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Answer by grawity_u1686 for What's an example of a utility program that the...

A common use is to launch interpreters, by making use of the fact that env will search $PATH for the command it is told to launch. Since the shebang line requires an absolute path to be specified, and...

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Answer by Daniel Beck for What's an example of a utility program that the env...

It's really any program. It is most useful for all those that use any value defined as environment variable. You can pass an environment variable value to any program without actually setting it in...

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What's an example of a utility program that the env command could call?

After taking a look at the env command man page I was curious to see an example of a utility program that would be used in the usage noted below?SYNOPSISenv [-i] [name=value ...] [utility [argument...

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