Linux Administration Bootcamp: Go from Beginner to Advanced - Environment Variables

This video tutorial explains environment variables, their role in affecting program behavior, and how to manage them in Linux. It covers viewing variables with printenv and echo, creating and updating them using export, and removing them with unset. The tutorial also discusses making variables persist across sessions by adding them to initialization files like bash_profile. Practical examples, such as setting the time zone, illustrate these concepts. The video concludes with guidance on finding environment variables used by programs through their man pages.

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