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Whare are environment variables?

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Whare are environment variables?

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The shell automatically sets up some variables whenever you login. For example, the $HOME variable is set to be the path to your home directory. Environment variables can be accessed through scripts by prepending them with a dollar sign and they can be modified by assigning new values to them.