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Type 'env' to view environment variables in BASH

You can view current environment variables in bash with 'env'. This is similar to 'set' in windows.

Here is more information about setting environment variables that I found useful.

John.

re: Type 'env' to view environment variables in BASH
dave on Mon May 24 13:05:00 UTC+1000 2004 said:
In case you didnt know, grep is really handy with the env command.

e.g. env | grep PATH

will only display the PATH variable or anything with PATH in it
re: Type 'env' to view environment variables in BASH
John on Mon May 24 13:08:00 UTC+1000 2004 said:

Cool.

You can do this too:

echo $PATH

John.
re: Type 'env' to view environment variables in BASH
dave on Mon May 24 14:27:00 UTC+1000 2004 said:
Here is a quick tip which I just rediscovered. If you want to find a file you can use "find / -name <your-file>" but this takes ages, if you do a "locate -u" a index of your filesystem is built and then you can just do locate <your-file> and it is super fast version of find.
re: Type 'env' to view environment variables in BASH
John on Mon May 24 14:35:00 UTC+1000 2004 said:

Awesome. Thx dude.

John.