shell variable
<programming, operating system>
One of the variables accessible to a Unix shell process, including environment variables (e.g. $HOME), command line arguments (e.g. $1) and local variables (e.g. $input_file). Other operating systems have similar variables.
Last updated: 1999-01-26
Nearby terms:
shell out ♦ shell script ♦ shell variable ♦ shielded twisted pair ♦ SHIFT
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