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diff --git a/doc/api/process.markdown b/doc/api/process.markdown index 68f15c2fb..04da4a6f8 100644 --- a/doc/api/process.markdown +++ b/doc/api/process.markdown @@ -276,6 +276,29 @@ Returns the current working directory of the process. An object containing the user environment. See environ(7). +An example of this object looks like: + + { TERM: 'xterm-256color', + SHELL: '/usr/local/bin/bash', + USER: 'maciej', + PATH: '~/.bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin', + PWD: '/Users/maciej', + EDITOR: 'vim', + SHLVL: '1', + HOME: '/Users/maciej', + LOGNAME: 'maciej', + _: '/usr/local/bin/node' } + +You can write to this object, but changes won't be reflected outside of your +process. That means that the following won't work: + + node -e 'process.env.foo = "bar"' && echo $foo + +But this will: + + process.env.foo = 'bar'; + console.log(process.env.foo); + ## process.exit([code]) |