Hacker News with Generative AI: Environment Variables

Environment variables with no equals sign (jvns.ca)
I learned a long time ago that environment variables are literally represented as the string NAME=value (you can see this by running cat /proc/self/environ on Linux).
Environment Variables, Linux, Programming
7 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 0 comments
Exec-path-from-shell: Make Emacs use the $PATH set in your shell (github.com/purcell)
A GNU Emacs library to ensure environment variables inside Emacs look the same as in the user's shell.
Emacs, Programming, Shell, Environment Variables, Software
6 points by fanf2 62 days ago | 0 comments
How to add a directory to your PATH (jvns.ca)
I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of the steps – a lot of them just said “add this to ~/.bashrc”, but what if you’re not using bash?
Operating Systems, Linux, Bash, Terminal, Environment Variables
38 points by alexchamberlain 88 days ago | 63 comments
Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars? (ycombinator.com)
Recently I tried playing with https://www.cursor.com/ but got spooked by the LuLu alert (https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html) when launching the app, where the process args included "JSON.stringify(process.env)" part, see screenshot here: https://imgur.com/a/DmDuGTz<p>Is this... normal? I don't understand why they might want to serialize/access all of my env vars. Does anyone have a suggestion for that behaviour? I'm probably missing some reasonable explanation, happy to learn more.
Security, IDEs, Privacy, Programming, Environment Variables
15 points by iyn 91 days ago | 25 comments
Modern Path Environment Variable (izissise.net)
The PATH environment variable is read by the shell or libc to find and execute programs, this is how the shell can find /bin/ls when ls is typed in a terminal.
Operating Systems, Linux, Shell, Programming, Environment Variables
6 points by ingve 221 days ago | 2 comments
DMNO: Environment Variables Evolved (dmno.dev)
DMNO makes your configuration safer and smarter. It integrates with the tools you already use and it's powered by TypeScript and Vite.
Environment Variables, Configuration Management, Development Tools, TypeScript, Vite
33 points by bpierre 234 days ago | 16 comments
Show HN: CLI tool that allows you to encrypt and decrypt your env variables (github.com/ulisesojeda)
Security, Environment Variables, Programming Tools
9 points by ulises22 264 days ago | 0 comments
An epic environment manager to fix local environment variable management (github.com/danthegoodman1)
Environment Variables, Software, Programming, Tools
12 points by ingve 293 days ago | 2 comments
Dotenvx: A better dotenv – from the creator of `dotenv` (github.com/dotenvx)
Software, Environment Variables, Programming, Libraries
19 points by yarapavan 318 days ago | 9 comments
Show HN: Envelope – A modern environment variable cli tool (github.com/mattrighetti)
Software, Tools, Environment Variables
103 points by mattrighetti 335 days ago | 55 comments