Dir

Dir, dir, or DIR may refer to:

Acronyms

De Imperatoribus Romanis, an online biographical encyclopedia of the Roman emperors from 27 BC to 1453 AD

Detroit International Riverfront, an area of Detroit, Michigan that borders the Detroit River

Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based approach, a developmental intervention to autism developed by Stanley Greenspan.

Digitally Imported Radio, an internet radio station.

Digital Instrumentation Recorder, a magnetic tape format by Sony.

Department of Information Resources, an area of government or business that manages information and communications technology

Division of Intramural Research, a division of the National Institutes of Health.

Doing It Right, a methodology for scuba diving.

In computing

An abbreviation for directory (file systems).

dir (command), a shell command.

directory (OpenVMS command), an operating system command.

<dir></dir>, an HTML element, see HTML element#dir

Places and areas

Dir, Pakistan, a town in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.

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location on Google Map

Diré

Diré is a town and commune on the left bank of the Niger River in the Tombouctou Region of Mali. In the 2009 census the population of the commune was 22,365. The town is the administrative center of the Diré Cercle. There are several languages spoken, but the main language is Songhay. The population is predominantly Muslim. Situated on the Niger River, the principal industries are agriculture and commerce.

References

External links

Plan de Sécurite Alimentaire Commune Urbaine de Diré 2006-2010 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006 .

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Environment variable

Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer.

They are part of the environment in which a process runs. For example, a running process can query the value of the TEMP environment variable to discover a suitable location to store temporary files, or the HOME or USERPROFILE variable to find the directory structure owned by the user running the process.

They were introduced in their modern form in 1979 with Version 7 Unix, so are included in all Unix operating system flavors and variants from that point onward including Linux and OS X. From PC DOS 2.0 in 1982, all succeeding Microsoft operating systems including Microsoft Windows, and OS/2 also have included them as a feature, although with somewhat different syntax, usage and standard variable names.

Details

In all Unix and Unix-like systems, each process has its own separate set of environment variables. By default, when a process is created, it inherits a duplicate environment of its parent process, except for explicit changes made by the parent when it creates the child. At the API level, these changes must be done between running fork and exec. Alternatively, from command shells such as bash, a user can change environment variables for a particular command invocation by indirectly invoking it via env or using the ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE=VALUE <command> notation. All Unix operating system flavors, DOS, and Windows have environment variables; however, they do not all use the same variable names. A running program can access the values of environment variables for configuration purposes.