When working in shell sessions on Linux, it is sometimes necessary to investigate the settings for that particular environment, and the env command can help with that.

In this 2-minute Linux Tip by Network World's  "Unix As A Second Language" blogger Sandra Henry-Stocker, learn how to use the env command to provide information about the shell environment and running commands in the altered environment.

This story, "2-Minute Linux Tip: The env command" was originally published by Network World.