From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba@gmail.com>
To: tzccinct <tzccinct@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin list <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Environment variable named !:: (exclamation mark + colon + colon)
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 17:05:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEhDDbA7XBZxE5Fxbw1qgQ_tR1qkTnyObRe6kVPd04nK-4sUkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <552a04ab-86a3-ef03-1c9e-c4d17aff1cd9@gmail.com>
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 15:25, tzccinct wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have found an environment variable that has a strange name `!::'
> (exclamation mark + colon + colon) on my terminal (both mintty and Tera
> Term). The value is also strange, `::\' (colon + colon + backslash).
>
> $ env | sort | head -n 3
> !::=::\
> _=/usr/bin/env
> ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
>
This seems to be related :
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/251174/strange-environment-variable-in-cygwin
Csaba
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