---
title: "unset multiple environment variables"
description: "You can unset multiple environment variables at once. I did not know this was a thing, its something that ended up happening organically on a call and asking..."
date: 2025-06-03
published: true
tags:
  - linux
  - bash
template: til
---



You can unset multiple environment variables at once. I did not know this was a
thing, its something that ended up happening organically on a call and asking
someone to run `unset`.  They had never done it before and did not know how it
works, but did exactly as I said instead of what I meant.  I like this handy
shortcut doing it in one line rather than each one individually, I will be
using this in the future. You might need this for something like
<a href="/running-aws-cli-commands-with-localstack/" class="wikilink" data-title="running aws cli commands with localstack" data-description="Upon first running an cli command using localstack you might end up with the following error." data-date="2022-10-17">running aws cli commands with localstack</a>.

``` bash
unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
```