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 -- You can get very substantial performance improvements by not doing the right thing. - Scott Meyers, An Effective C++11/14 Sampler So if you're looking for a completely portable, 100% standards-conformant way to get the wrong information: this is what you want. - Scott Meyers (C++TDaWYK) -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
