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authorNicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>2017-02-26 00:28:12 -0600
committerNicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>2017-02-26 00:39:24 -0600
commit3504bd9a2a9e9cb1e4864b69821b446d15fab85d (patch)
treece8e9d14641eb1791a7b623275178451f1e454cb /jq.1.prebuilt
parent1a8a0ae0f55858a8f0a5e8c73f71e1e609b820f4 (diff)
Add $ENV builtin variable to access environment
Diffstat (limited to 'jq.1.prebuilt')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/jq.1.prebuilt b/jq.1.prebuilt
index c4d25ea7..04b90715 100644
--- a/jq.1.prebuilt
+++ b/jq.1.prebuilt
@@ -1830,13 +1830,23 @@ jq \'walk( if type == "object" then with_entries( \.key |= sub( "^_+"; "") ) els
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.IP "" 0
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-.SS "env"
-Outputs an object representing jq\'s environment\.
+.SS "$ENV, env"
+\fB$ENV\fR is an object representing the environment variables as set when the jq program started\.
+.
+.P
+\fBenv\fR outputs an object representing jq\'s current environment\.
+.
+.P
+At the moment there is no builtin for setting environment variables\.
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.IP "" 4
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.nf
+jq \'$ENV\.PAGER\'
+ null
+=> "less"
+
jq \'env\.PAGER\'
null
=> "less"