printenv — Display Current Environment Variable

Synopsis

/usr/ucb/printenv [variable] 

Description

Use the printenv command to print the values of the variables in the environment. If a variable is specified, only its value is printed.

Examples

The following example displays the value for the EDITOR environment variable.

castle% printenv EDITOR 
/usr/dt/bin/dtpad 
castle% 

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

Attribute Type Attribute Value
Availability SUNWscpu

See Also

csh(1), echo(1), sh(1), stty(1), tset(1B), attributes(5), environ(5)

Diagnostics

If a variable is specified and it is not defined in the environment, printenv returns an exit status of 1.

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