Bug 359169 - man page lists $ in front of namess of environmental variables used
Summary: man page lists $ in front of namess of environmental variables used
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kinit
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian unstable Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
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Reported: 2016-02-09 08:37 UTC by Maximiliano Curia
Modified: 2023-07-03 21:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Maximiliano Curia 2016-02-09 08:37:42 UTC 
(Forwarding debian https://bugs.debian.org/811165)
I read on the manual page for kdeinit5:

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       $HOME
           Specifies the home directory of the current user

       $KDE_HOME_READONLY
           Specifies if the home directory of the current user is read only

       $KDE_IS_PRELINKED
           If set, tells kdeinit5 that the KDE programs are pre-linked.

           (Prelinking is a process that allows you to speed up the process of
           dynamic linking.)

However they should be listed without the evaluation operator $ at the start.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 David Faure 2016-02-09 20:59:29 UTC 
Why?
Comment 2 Jonathan Marten 2016-02-10 08:13:53 UTC 
Well, without the $ seems to be the standard way of showing environment variables in man pages.  See for example bash(1), more(1), ps(1).
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2023-07-03 21:05:59 UTC 
kinit is removed for the upcoming kf6, beside critical fixes nothing will be done in the kf5 branch.