How To: Temporarily Clear Bash Environment Variables on a Linux and Unix-like System | Linux Today

How To: Temporarily Clear Bash Environment Variables on a Linux and Unix-like System

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Aug 3, 2015

I’m a bash shell user. I would like to temporarily clear bash shell environment variables. I do not want to delete or unset an exported environment variable. How do I run a program in a temporary environment in bash or ksh shell?

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