Re: How not to inherit any environment variable from parent process?

[Bob Proulx]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >   $ env -i HOME=$HOME PATH=$PATH env | wc -l
> 
> since the args are being passed on the command line and the shell
> itself isnt evaluating it, you'll want to make sure to quote them if
> you have spaces:
> $ env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" env | wc -l

Oh, good catch!  Thanks for noting that.

> otherwise, not much else to add to Bob's fairly complete response
> -mike

Thanks!
Bob