Environment Variables

The TMPDIR environment variable affects dbx if you define it at invocation time. When this variable is set, dbx uses the specified directory instead of /tmp for all of its temp files.

dbx specific environment variables have a DBX_ prefix, which is reserved for internal environment variable names.

Each of the dbx environment variables has a corresponding ksh environment variable such as DBX_trace_speed (see ksh Environment Variables). You can assign the variable directly or use the dbxenv command; they are equivalent.

You may assign the variable directly, or use the dbxenv Command; they are equivalent.

The following obsolete names are recognized as aliases by the dbxenv command and emit a warning. The old names do not have corresponding Korn shell variables starting with $DBX_:


Old name

New name

autocontinue rtc_auto_continue
autoflush output_auto_flush
autosuppress rtc_auto_suppress
case input_case_sensitive
compress_stabs symbol_info_compression
dynamic_type output_dynamic_type
errlogfile rtc_error_log_file_name
errstack rtc_error_stack
error_limit rtc_error_limit
func_overload overload_function
lo_cache locache_enable
logfile output_log_file_name
lookaside scope_look_aside
oper_overload overload_operator
pop_autodestruct pop_auto_destruct
setpgrp run_setpgrp
savetty run_savetty
shortfname output_short_file_name
speed trace_speed
stackmaxsize stack_max_size
stackverbose stack_verbose
stepevents step_events
stringlen output_max_string_length
warnings symbol_info_warnings