how to view environment variables

Chris Whitehouse cwhiteh at onetel.com
Mon Jun 16 23:55:22 UTC 2008


Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>  > sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/README.FreeBSD refers to various environment 
>  > variables, eg UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE and others. How do I find out what they 
>  > are set to? set and printenv don't find them. I'm using standard csh and 
>  >   FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE, fuse.ko is loaded and ntfs-3g works except it 
>  > seems very slow.
> 
> The "env" command prints the environment variables of your
> current shell (should work with any shell).
> 
> To view the environment variables of another process, use
> something like "ps -ewwp 1234" (1234 being the PID number).
> This requires PROCFS to be mounted on /proc.
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver
> 
This is the last bit of the puzzle. It does indeed print environment 
variables set with 'env VAR=foo prog'  but as I've now understood from 
previous replies the program doesn't set variables, it uses them if they 
are already set, otherwise uses defaults.

Thanks

Chris


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