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diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7 index 3d4f707d6..165117368 100644 --- a/man7/environ.7 +++ b/man7/environ.7 @@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ of its parent's environment. .PP By convention, the strings in .I environ -have the form "\fIname\fP\fB=\fP\fIvalue\fP". +have the form +. RI \[dq] name\f[B]=\f[]value \[dq]. The name is case-sensitive and may not contain -the character "\fB=\fP". +the character +.RB \[dq] = \[dq]. The value can be anything that can be represented as a string. The name and the value may not contain an embedded null byte (\[aq]\e0\[aq]), since this is assumed to terminate the string. @@ -131,7 +133,8 @@ The sequence of directory prefixes that and many other programs employ when searching for an executable file that is specified as a simple filename (i.a., a pathname that contains no slashes). -The prefixes are separated by colons (\fB:\fP). +The prefixes are separated by colons +.RB ( : ). The list of prefixes is searched from beginning to end, by checking the pathname formed by concatenating a prefix, a slash, and the filename, |