kitten-@-env(1)

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version 0.49.2 · 12 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

🎀 kitten-@-env(1) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the kitten Manual entry for kitten-@-env — this is the command for changing environment variables seen by future children, and it’s giving very niche-but-iconic main character energy 💅✨

✨ Name ✨

kitten-@-env — change environment variables seen by future children 🫶

🫶 Usage 🫶

copy-paste this vibe, fr fr:

kitten @ env  env_var1=val env_var2=val ...

🌸 Description 🌸

okay so here’s the tea: this command changes the environment variables that will be seen in newly launched windows. it’s similar to the env option in kitty.conf, but no cap, it affects running kitty instances. and if there’s no = present? the variable is removed from the environment. that’s the whole vibe, periodt. 💖

💅 Options 💅

  • --help, -h [=no] — show help for this command 🎀

🌍 Global options 🌍

these are the global besties, and they’re lowkey important:

  • --to — an address for the kitty instance to control. it corresponds to the address given to the kitty instance via the --listen-on option or the listen_on setting in kitty.conf. if not specified, the environment variable KITTY_LISTEN_ON is checked. if that’s also not found, messages are sent to the controlling terminal for this process, i.e. they’ll only work if this process is run within a kitty window. 🦋
  • --password — a password to use when contacting kitty. this will cause kitty to ask the user for permission to perform the specified action, unless the password has been accepted before or is pre-configured in kitty.conf. to use a blank password specify --use-password as always. 🔐✨
  • --password-file [=rc-pass] — a file from which to read the password. trailing whitespace is ignored. relative paths are resolved from the kitty configuration directory. use - to read from STDIN. use fd:num to read from the file descriptor num. used if no --password is supplied. defaults to checking for the rc-pass file in the kitty configuration directory. 📁💜
  • --password-env [=KITTY_RC_PASSWORD] — the name of an environment variable to read the password from. used if no --password-file is supplied. defaults to checking the environment variable KITTY_RC_PASSWORD. 🌱
  • --use-password [=if-available] — if no password is available, kitty will usually just send the remote control command without a password. this option can be used to force it to always or never use the supplied password. if set to always and no password is provided, the blank password is used. Choices: if-available, always, never. 👑🔥

kitten version 0.49.2, dated Oct 01, 2026 — that’s the footer vibe, periodt 💅

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