Check environment variables: $ echo "$LANG" C $ echo "$LC_ALL" C $ echo "$LANGUAGE" C $ echo "$TZ" GMT $ echo "$CDPATH" $ echo "$GREP_OPTIONS" $ echo "$CRAMTMP" .+ (re) $ echo "$TESTDIR" */examples (glob) $ ls "$TESTDIR" bare.t empty.t env.t fail.t missingeol.t skip.t test.t $ echo "$TESTFILE" env.t $ pwd */cramtests*/env.t (glob)