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Screenwriting software are word processors specialized to the task of writing screenplays.
Overview[edit]
Features[edit]
While add-ins and macros for word processors, such as Script Wizard[1] for Microsoft Word, can be used to write screenplays, the need for dedicated screenwriting programs arises from the presence of certain peculiarities in standard screenplay format which are not handled well by generic word processors such as page-break constraints imposed by standard screenplay format. Screenplay software often provides specialized shortcuts for quickly typing character names or slug lines, collaborating with other writers, adding production notes, character notes, easy outlining, scene reordering, and other tools to facilitate the creative process.[2] Other features often required when writing shooting scripts include page-locking, scene numbering, revision-tracking, and production-related reports (such as which characters appear in a given scene or which scenes are set during the day or night).
Some screenwriting applications, such as Celtx and Sophocles, also incorporate production scheduling and budgeting features.[3]
Another class of screenwriting software includes those that, rather than act as specialized word processors, attempt to direct the writer's storytelling process by utilizing story theory to facilitate the planning of a screenplay. Examples of this type of program includes Dramatica and Index Card.
Screenwriting software often also provides functions that allow writers to analyze their scripts for various characteristics. In 2018, developers began adding functions that allow an analysis of gender representation such as the Bechdel test, e.g. in Highland 2, WriterDuet and the forthcoming Final Draft 11.[4]
Platforms[edit]
Screenwriting programs exist for all varieties of platforms and environments including traditional standalone desktop applications that run directly on a personal computer, web applications that run solely within a browser, and mobile apps that run on phones, tablets, and other portable devices.
Plain text markup[edit]
The Fountain markup syntax, co-developed by screenwriter John August, facilitates formatting screenplays directly from plain text, be it in dedicated writing software, email programs, or text generated through OCR.[5] There is also a formatting package for LaTeX called screenplay.
History[edit]
The first screenwriting software was a standalone script formatter, Scriptor, from Screenplay Systems[citation needed]. It took a text file generated by a word processor and inserted the proper page break tags. When used in conjunction with a TSR program such as SmartKey or ProKey—keyboard utilities that assigned a sequence of commands to keystroke combinations—the 'dot commands' that Scriptor required could be inserted semi-automatically. Additionally, keyboard macros could be programmed to properly indent and enter abbreviations—allowing a user to customize the working of the word processor.
SmartKey was popular with screenwriters from 1982–1987, after which word processing programs had their own macro features.[citation needed]
An update to Scriptor understood the style sheets used in Microsoft Word for DOS. And so the need for key macro programs was lessened. Scriptor's limitation was that once formatted it was difficult to re-import the resulting text back into a word processor for further editing.[citation needed]
The next generation of screenplay software hooked into Microsoft Word. Warren Script Application was initially released as a set of style sheets for Word for DOS. It was updated for Word for Windows circa 1988. gScript, a shareware script formatter/template, was released via CompuServe in 1989. It was included on the disk accompanying the book Take Word for Windows to the Edge, published by Ziff-Davis in 1993. It was subsequently updated and released commercially as ScriptWright.[citation needed]
This third generation of screenplay software consists of the standalone script writing programs such as Movie Magic Screenwriter, Final Draft, and Cinovation's Scriptware.[citation needed]
The latest generation adds online storage and collaboration and integrates with apps on mobile devices. Many software also integrate outlining tools as well as other creative support, and tools to further integrate the production process.[citation needed]
List of softwares[edit]
- Arc Studio Pro - Professional screenwriting software with automatic formatting, real time collaboration and drag and drop outlining features. Free and paid versions available.
- Beat - Free and open source screenwriting app for macOS, with drag and drop outlining, scene card and timeline views. It uses the Fountain plain text format.
- Causality - an original approach emphasizes visual story development outlining and simultaneous scripting movement while tracking causalities (cause and effects) of key plot points; simultaneously display of 3 story elements: Snippets(Script)/Story Logic (White Board)/Timeline, plus visual Characters tracking. Quickly breeze though an outline, simultaneously write out story Snippets as the ideas come. Exports into Final Draft, Fountain, and PDF, and loaded with extra features, with multi-language support, plus collaboration and other features coming soon. Free and Paid versions for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. [6][7]
- Celtx - Free to register, but requires paid subscription for the full collaborative version. Browser-based, with apps for Mac OS X, IOS, and Android. Includes a comic book script-writing mode.[8]
- DramaQueen - Software for script writers and novelists. Offers working with storylines, turning points, different structure models, a storytelling guidance, character profiles, story-charts and character arcs.
- Dramatica - Name of a theory and software suite created as part of a project by Chris Huntley and Melanie Anne Phillips.
- DubScript Screenplay Writer- A professional screenwriting software for Android with features such as auto-formatting and Google Docs fixing. A free version is available with a watermark header on printed output/PDF and optional subscription. DubScript also outputs to most major screenwriting formats.[8]
- Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software - Professional screenwriting software for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux, with mobile versions for iPhone, iPad and Android. Imports and exports Final Draft as well as most other major screenwriting software formats.
- Final Draft - Professional screenwriting software for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
- Highland - Highland is a screenplay utility for Mac that seamlessly converts PDF screenplays into editable Fountain or Final Draft files, and back again. It’s also a text editor, so a screenplay can be written directly in Highland.
- JotterPad - A powerful professional screenwriting app for Android. Includes paid Fountain support, export to Final Draft and print formatted script to PDF.
- KIT Scenarist - A free and open source screenwriting software for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux, which includes story development tools, corkboard, screenplay editor and statistics module. Includes paid service for real-time collaboration and versions for Android and iOS.
- Montage - Screenwriting software for Mac only.
- Movie Magic Screenwriter - Integrated professional screenwriting software. Available on Mac and Microsoft Windows.
- Page 2 Stage - Free open-source software, designed specifically for Windows. Available in a variety of languages.
- Practical Scriptwriter - Professional script writing software for Windows. Formats cover Film, Stage, Radio and TV.
- Prewrite - Free browser-based tool for writers to develop story ideas into a screenplay, scene-by-scene—visually with timelines, cards and inspiring images. It tracks story beats, characters, emotional context, plot threads, and provides advanced analysis tools for insights into story structure. Provides importing and exporting features that work with Final Draft and PDF file formats.
- Script Studio (formerly Movie Outline) - Creative writing software for Mac and Windows designed by produced screenwriter for writing and professionally formatting movie scripts, teleplays, stage plays and novels. Includes story and character development features.
- Scripts Pro - iOS-based app which allows a writer to edit scripts in text file format via Dropbox and iTunes transfers.[8]
- Scrivener (software) - A powerful writing tool that helps writers concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
- Screenwriter-mode - Major mode for the GNU Emacs free text editor. Includes commands and tools to format scripts as plain text files.
- Slugline - It is a screenwriting app for Mac, iPad and iPhone. It uses the Fountain plain text format.
- Story Touch - Story Touch is a complete software for dramatic development and creation. Graphs and color pallets will provide a veritable X-ray of a script.
- Storyist - Storyist is a creative writing application for Mac OS X and iPad.
- StudioBinder Script Sides - StudioBinder is a TV & film production management software which has an inbuilt screenwriting tool called 'script sides'.
- Tooleybook - Free online book writing software [9]
- Trelby - A free and open source screenwriting program for Linux and Microsoft Windows. (Development at a standstill, but still viable and available for download.)
- WriterDuet - Real-time collaborative, online-offline professional screenwriting software.[10]
Discontinued[edit]
- Adobe Story - An online collaborative screenwriting suite by Adobe.[11]
- Celtx free desktop version - Has become cloud-based requiring paid subscription for the full version.
- FiveSprockets - A discontinued free, online, collaborative story-development and scriptwriting web-software.
- Scripped - Professional browser-based screenwriting text editing software. (now defunct and no longer accessible)
- Sophocles - commercial story-development, scriptwriting, and scheduling package. (discontinued)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Select the Perfect Script Software | WritersDigest.com'. WritersDigest.com. 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
- ^'What is the best free screenwriting software for screenwriters?'. Script Reader Pro. 2020-06-06. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ^'Celtx is Now an All-in-One Video & Movie Planning System'. No Film School. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
- ^Ryzik, Melena (21 May 2018). 'Is your script gender-balanced? The new test helping filmmakers get it right'. The Independent. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^'John August and Stu Maschwitz Release 'Fountain,' a Handy Screenwriting Tool/Markup Language'. No Film School. 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
- ^https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/causality.html
- ^https://medium.com/infodump/a-working-guide-to-screenwriting-software-384abe163545 'A working guide to screenwriting software' Julian Simpson Mar 17 2018
- ^ abcEaton, Kit (2015-02-04). 'Video Feature: Easy Ways to Get Your Movie Idea Out of Your Head'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
- ^https://tooleybook.com
- ^https://nofilmschool.com/2014/09/writerduet-pro-makes-collaborative-screenwriting-app-available-offline-much
- ^https://helpx.adobe.com/story/kb/end-of-service-adobe-story.html
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Writing a shell script is like riding a bike. You fall off and scrape your knees a lot at first. With a bit more experience, you become comfortable riding them around town, but also quickly discover why most people drive cars for longer trips.
Shell scripting is generally considered to be a glue language, ideal for creating small pieces of code that connect other tools together. While shell scripts can be used for more complex tasks, they are usually not the best choice.
If you have ever successfully trued a bicycle wheel (or paid someone else to do so), that’s similar to learning the basics of shell scripting. If you don’t true your scripts, they wobble. Put another way, it is often easy to write a script, but it can be more challenging to write a script that consistently works well.
This chapter and the next two chapters introduce the basic concepts of shell scripting. The remaining chapters in this document provide additional breadth and depth. This document is not intended to be a complete reference on writing shell scripts, nor could it be. It does, however, provide a good starting point for beginners first learning this black art.
Shell Script Dialects
There are many different dialects of shell scripts, each with their own quirks, and some with their own syntax entirely. Because of these differences, the road to good shell scripting can be fraught with peril, leading to script failures, misbehavior, and even outright data loss.
To that end, the first lesson you must learn before writing a shell script is that there are two fundamentally different sets of shell script syntax: the Bourne shell syntax and the C shell syntax. The C shell syntax is more comfortable to many C programmers because the syntax is somewhat similar. However, the Bourne shell syntax is significantly more flexible and thus more widely used. For this reason, this document only covers the Bourne shell syntax.
The second hard lesson you will invariably learn is that each dialect of Bourne shell syntax differs slightly. This document includes only pure Bourne shell syntax and a few BASH-specific extensions. Where BASH-specific syntax is used, it is clearly noted.
The terminology and subtle syntactic differences can be confusing—even a bit overwhelming at times; had Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz been a programmer, you might have heard them exclaim, 'BASH and ZSH and CSH, Oh My!' Fortunately, once you get the basics, things generally fall into place as long as you avoid using shell-specific features. Stay on the narrow road and your code will be portable.
Some common shells are listed below, grouped by script syntax:
Bourne-compatible shells
sh
bash
zsh
ksh
C-shell-compatible shells
csh
tcsh
bcsh
(C shell to Bourne shell translator/emulator)
Many of these shells have more than one variation. Most of these variations are denoted by prefixing the name of an existing shell with additional letters that are short for whatever differentiates them from the original shell. For example:
- The shell
pdksh
is a variant ofksh
. Being a public domain rewrite of AT&T'sksh
, it stands for 'Public Domain Korn SHell.' (This is a bit of a misnomer, as a few bits are under a BSD-like open source license. However, the name remains.) - The shell
tcsh
is an extension ofcsh
. It stands for the TENEX C SHell, as some of its enhancements were inspired by the TENEX operating system. - The shell
bash
is an extension ofsh
. It stands for the Bourne Again SHell. (Oddly enough, it is not a variation ofash
, the Almquist SHell, though both are Bourne shell variants. This should not be confused with thedash
shell—anash
-derived shell used in some Linux distributions—whose name stands for the Debian Almquist SHell.)
And so on. In general, with the exception of
csh
and tcsh
, it is usually safe to assume that any modern login shell is compatible with Bourne shell syntax.Note: Because the C shell syntax is not well suited to scripting beyond a very basic level, this document does not cover C shell variants in depth. For more information, see About the C Shell.
About the C Shell
The C shell is popular among some users as a shell for interacting with the computer because it allows simple scripts to be written more easily. However, the C shell scripting language is limited in a number of ways, many of which are hard to work around. For this reason, use of the C shell scripting language for writing complex scripts is not recommended. For more information, read “CSH Programming Considered Harmful” at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/. Although many of the language flaws it describes are fixed by some modern C shells, if you are writing a script that must work on multiple computers across different operating systems, you cannot always guarantee that the installed C shell will support those extensions.
However, the C shell scripting language has its uses, particularly for writing scripts that set up environment variables for interactive shell environments, execute a handful of commands in order, or perform other relatively lightweight chores. To support such uses, the C shell syntax is presented alongside the Bourne shell syntax within this 'basics” chapter where possible.
Outside of this chapter, this document does not generally cover the C shell syntax. If after reading this, you still want to write a more complex script using the C shell programming language, you can find more information in on the C shell in the manual page for
csh
.Shell Variables and Printing
What follows is a very basic shell script that prints “Hello, world!” to the screen:
The first thing you should notice is that the script starts with ‘
#!
’. This is known as an interpreter line. If you don’t specify an interpreter line, the default is usually the Bourne shell (/bin/sh
). However, it is best to specify this line anyway for consistency.The second thing you should notice is the
echo
command. The echo
command is nearly universal in shell scripting as a means for printing something to the user’s screen. (Technically speaking, echo
is generally a shell builtin, but it also exists as as standalone command, /bin/echo
. You can read more about the difference between the builtin version and the standalone version in echo and Use Shell Builtins Wherever Possible.)If you’d like, you can try this script by saving those lines in a text file (say “hello_world.sh”) in your home directory. Then, in Terminal, type:
Of course, this script isn’t particularly useful. It just prints the words “Hello, world!“ to your screen. To make this more interesting, the next script throws in a few variables.
Type or paste this script into the text editor of your choice (see Creating Text Files in Your Home Directory for help creating a text file) and save the file in your home directory in a file called
test.sh
.Once you have saved the file in your home directory, type ‘
chmod a+x test.sh
’ in Terminal to make it executable. Finally, run it with ‘./test.sh leaders
’. You should see “Hello, world leaders!” printed to your screen.This script provides an example of a variable assignment. The variable
$1
contains the first argument passed to the shell script. In this example, the script makes a copy and stores it into a variable called FIRST_ARGUMENT
, then prints that variable.You should immediately notice that variables may or may not begin with a dollar sign, depending on how you are using them. If you want to dereference a variable, you precede it with a dollar sign. The shell then inserts the contents of the variable at that point in the script. For all other uses, you do not precede it with a dollar sign.
Important: You generally do not want to prefix the variable on the left side of an assignment statement with a dollar sign. Because
would be expanded by the shell into the following complete gibberish:This is clearly not what you want (and produces an error). Because of the order in which the statement is evaluated, the above assignment statement would still fail with an error even if FIRST_ARGUMENT
starts out empty, if you used a dollar sign, the first line:Script Writing Software Mac Os X
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eval
, as described in Using the eval Builtin for Data Structures, Arrays, and Indirection.)You should also notice that the argument to echo is surrounded by double quotation marks. This is explained further in the next section, Using Arguments And Variables That Contain Spaces.
C Shell Note: The syntax for assignment statements in the C shell is rather different. Instead of an assignment statement, the C shell uses the
The functional difference between set
and setenv
builtins to set variables as shown below:set
and setenv
is described in Exporting Shell Variables.Using Arguments And Variables That Contain Spaces
Take a second look at the script from the previous section:
Notice that the echo statement is followed by a string surrounded by quotation marks. Normally, the shell uses spaces to separate arguments to commands. Outside of quotation marks, the shell would treat “Hello,” and “world” as separate arguments to
echo
.By surrounding the string with double quote marks, the shell treats the entire string as a single argument to
echo
even though it contains spaces.To see how this works, save the script above as
test.sh
(if you haven’t already), then type the following commands:The first line above prints “Hello, world leaders!” because the space after “leaders” ends the first argument (
$1
). Inside the script, the variable $1
contains “leaders”, $2
contains “and”, and $3
contains “citizens”.The second line above prints “Hello, world leaders and citizens!” because the quotation marks on the command line cause everything within them to be grouped as a single argument.
Notice also that there are similar quotation marks on the right side of the assignment statement:
With most modern shells, these double quotation marks are not required for this particular assignment statement (because there are no literal spaces on the right side), but they are a good idea for maximum compatibility. See Historical String Parsing in Historical Footnotes and Arcana to learn why.
When assigning literal strings (rather than variables containing strings) to a variable, however, you must surround any spaces with quotation marks. For example, the following statement does not do what you might initially suspect:
If you type this statement, the Bourne shell gives you an error like this:
The reason for this seemingly odd error is that the assignment statement ends at the first space, so the next word after that statement is interpreted as a command to execute. See Overriding Environment Variables for Child Processes (Bourne Shell) for more details.
Instead, write this statement as:
Using quotation marks is particularly important when working with variables that contain filenames or paths. For example, type the following commands:
The above example creates a directory in
/tmp
called “My Folder”. (Don’t worry about deleting it because /tmp
gets wiped every time you reboot.) It then attempts to list the files in that directory. The first time, it uses quotation marks. The second time, it does not. Notice that the shell misinterprets the command the second time as being an attempt to list the files in /tmp/My
and the files in Folder
.Handling Quotation Marks in Strings
In modern Bourne shells, expansion of variables, occurs after the statement itself is fully parsed by the shell. (See Historical String Parsing in Historical Footnotes and Arcana for more information.) Thus, as long as the variable is enclosed in double quote marks, you do not get any execution errors even if the variable’s value contains double-quote marks.
However, if you are using double quote marks within a literal string, you must quote that string properly. For example:
C Shell Note: The C shell handling of backslashes within double-quoted strings is different. In the C shell, the previous example should be changed to:
to achieve the desired effect. This difference is described further in Parsing, Variable Expansion, and Quoting.This quoting technique also applies to literal strings within commands entered on the command line. For example, using the script from earlier in Shell Variables and Printing, the command:
prints the phrase “Hello, world “leaders”!”
The details of quotes as they apply to variable expansion are explained in Parsing, Variable Expansion, and Quoting. (Variable safety with shells that predate this behavior is generally impractical. Fortunately, the modern behavior has been the norm since the mid-1990s.)
Shell scripts also allow the use of single quote marks. Variables between single quotes are not replaced by their contents. Be sure to use double quotes unless you are intentionally trying to display the actual name of the variable. You can also use single quotes as a way to avoid the shell interpreting the contents of the string in any way. These differences are described further in Parsing, Variable Expansion, and Quoting.
Exporting Shell Variables
One key feature of shell scripts is that variables are typically limited in their scope to the currently running script. The scoping of variables is described in more detail in Subroutines, Scoping, and Sourcing. For now, though, it suffices to say that variables generally do not get passed on to scripts or tools that they execute.
Normally, this is what you want. Most variables in a shell script do not have any meaning to the tools that they execute, and thus represent clutter and the potential for variable namespace collisions if they are exported. Occasionally, however, you will find it necessary to make a variable's value available to an outside tool. To do this, you must export the variable. These exported variables are commonly known as environment variables because they affect the execution of every script or tool that runs but are not part of those scripts or tools themselves.
A classic example of an environment variable that is significant to scripts and tools is the
PATH
variable. This variable specifies a list of locations that the shell searches when executing programs by name (without specifying a complete path). For example, when you type ls
on the command line, the shell searches in the locations specified in PATH
(in the order specified) until it finds an executable called ls
(or runs out of locations, whichever comes first).The details of exporting shell variables differ considerably between the Bourne shell and the C shell. Thus, the following sections explain these details in a shell-specific fashion.
Using the export Builtin (Bourne Shell)
Generally speaking, the first time you assign a value to an environment variable such as the
PATH
variable, the Bourne shell creates a new, local copy of this shell variable that is specific to your script. Any tool executed from your script is passed the original value of PATH
inherited from whatever script, tool, or shell that launched it.With the BASH shell, however, any variable inherited from the environment is automatically exported by the shell. Thus, in some versions of OS X, if you modify inherited environment variables (such as
PATH
) in a script, your local changes will be seen automatically by any tool or script that your script executes. Thus, in these versions of OS X, you do not have to explicitly use the export
statement when modifying the PATH
variable.Because different Bourne shell variants handle these external environment variables differently (even among different versions of OS X), this creates two minor portability problems:
- A script written without the
export
statement may work on some versions of OS X, but will fail on others. You can solve this portability problem by using theexport
builtin, as described in this section. - A shell script that changes variables such as
PATH
will alter the behavior of any script that it executes, which may or may not be desirable. You can solve this problem by overriding thePATH
environment variable when you execute each individual tool, as described in Overriding Environment Variables for Child Processes (Bourne Shell).
To guarantee that your modifications to a shell variable are passed to any script or tool that your shell script calls, you must use the
export
builtin. You do not have to use this command every time you change the value; the variable remains exported until the shell script exits.For example:
Either of these statements has the same effect—specifically, they export the local notion of the
PATH
environment variable to any command that your script executes from now on. There is a small catch, however. You cannot later undo this export to restore the original global declaration. Thus, if you need to retain the original value, you must store it somewhere yourself.In the following example, the script stores the original value of the
PATH
environment variable, exports an altered version, executes a command, and restores the old version.If you need to find out whether an environment variable (whether inherited by your script or explicitly set with the
export
directive) was set to empty or was never set in the first place, you can use the printenv
command to obtain a complete list of defined variables and use grep
to see if it is in the list. (You should note that although printenv
is a csh builtin, it is also a standalone command in /usr/bin
.)For example:
The resulting variable will contain 1 if the variable is defined in the environment or 0 if it is not.
Overriding Environment Variables for Child Processes (Bourne Shell)
Because the BASH Bourne shell variant automatically exports all variables inherited from its environment, any changes you make to preexisting environment variables such as
PATH
are automatically inherited by any tool or script that your script executes. (This is not true for other Bourne shell variants; see Using the export Builtin (Bourne Shell) for further explanation.)While automatic export is usually convenient, you may sometimes wish to change a preexisting environment variable without modifying the environment of any script or tool that your script executes. For example, if your script executes a number of tools in
/usr/local/bin
, it may be convenient to change the value of PATH
to include /usr/local/bin
. However, you may not want child processes to also look in /usr/local/bin
.This problem is easily solved by overriding the environment variable
PATH
on a per-execution basis. Consider the following script:This script prints the value of the variable
MYVAR
. Normally, this variable is empty, so this script just prints a blank line. Save the script as printmyvar.sh
, then type the following commands:Notice that the assignment statement
MYVAR=7
applies only
to the command that follows it. The value of MYVAR
is altered in the environment of the command ./printmyvar.sh
, so the script prints the number 7. However, the original (empty) value is restored after executing that command, so the echo statement afterwards prints an empty string for the value of MYVAR
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Thus, to modify the
PATH
variable locally but execute a command with the original PATH
value, you can write a script like this:Using the setenv Builtin (C shell)
In the C shell, variables are exported if you set them with
setenv
, but not if you set them with set
. Thus, if you want your shell variable modifications to be seen by any tool or script that you call, you should use the setenv
builtin. This builtin is the C shell equivalent to issuing an assignment statement with the export
builtin in the Bourne shell.If you want your shell variables to only be available to your script, you should use the
set
builtin (described in Shell Variables and Printing). The set
builtin is equivalent to a simple assignment statement in the Bourne shell.Notice that the local variable version requires an equals sign (
=
), but the exported environment version does not (and produces an error if you put one in).To remove variables in the C shell, you can use the
unsetenv
or unset
builtin. For example:This will generate an error message. In the C shell, it is not possible to print the value of an undefined variable, so if you think you may need to print the value later, you should set it to an empty string rather than using
unset
or unsetenv
.If you need to test an environment variable (not a shell-local variable) that may or may not be part of your environment (a variable set by whatever process called your script), you can use the
printenv
builtin. This prints the value of a variable if set, but prints nothing if the variable is not set, and thus behaves just like the variable behaves in the Bourne shell.For example:
This prints
X is '
if the variable is either empty or undefined. Otherwise, it prints the value of the variable between the quotation marks.If you need to find out if a variable is simply empty or is actually not set, you can also use
printenv
to obtain a complete list of defined variables and use grep
to see if it is in the list. For example:The resulting variable will contain 1 if the variable is defined in the environment or 0 if it is not.
Overriding Environment Variables for Child Processes (C Shell)
Unlike the Bourne shell, the C shell does not provide a built-in syntax for overriding environment variables when executing external commands. However, it is possible to simulate this either by using the
env
command.The best and simplest way to do this is with the
env
command. For example:As an alternative, you can use the
set
builtin to make a temporary copy of any variable you need to override, change the value, execute the command, and restore the value from the temporary copy.You should notice, however, that whether you use the
env
command or manually make a copy, the PATH
variable is altered prior to searching for the command. Because the PATH
variable controls where the shell looks for programs to execute, you must therefore explicitly provide a complete path to the ls
command or it will not be found (unless you have a copy in /usr/local/bin
, of course). The PATH
environment variable is explained in Special Shell Variables.As a workaround, you can determine the path of the executable using the
which
command prior to altering the PATH
environment variable.Or, using
env
:The use of the backtick (`) operator in this fashion is described in Inline Execution.
Security Note:If your purpose for overriding an environment variable is to prevent disclosure of sensitive information to a potentially untrusted process, you should be aware that if you use
setenv
for the copy, the called process has access to that temporary copy just as it had access to the original variable. To avoid this, be sure to create the temporary copy using the set
builtin instead of setenv
.Deleting Shell Variables
For the most part, in Bourne shell scripts, when you need to get rid of a variable, setting it to an empty string is sufficient. However, in long-running scripts that might encounter memory pressure, it can be marginally useful to delete the variable entirely. To do this, use the
unset
builtin.For example:
The
unset
builtin can also be used to delete environment variables.C Shell Note: The C shell
unset
builtin is identical except that it cannot be used to delete environment variables. Use unsetenv
instead, as shown in Overriding Environment Variables for Child Processes (C Shell).Also, in C shell, if you try to use a deleted variable, it is considered an error. (In Bourne shell, an unset variable is treated like an empty string.)
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