This variable contains a colon : -separated list of directories in which your system looks for executable files. If the command is found, it executes. Variables are- Case Sensitive. Make sure that you type the variable name in the right letter case otherwise you may not get the desired results. Again, bear in mind that variables are case-sensitive and usually they are created in upper case.
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Unfortunately, set does not tell you which file defined the variable. The Overflow Blog. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? If we type set without any additional parameters, we will get a list of all shell variables, environmental variables, local variables, and shell functions:.
This is usually a huge list. You probably want to pipe it into a pager program to more easily deal with the amount of output:. The amount of additional information that we receive back is a bit overwhelming. We probably do not need to know all of the bash functions that are defined, for instance. We can execute this in a sub-shell so that it does not change our current environment:.
We can attempt to compare this output with the output of the env or printenv commands to try to get a list of only shell variables, but this will be imperfect due to the different ways that these commands output information:.
This will likely still include a few environmental variables, due to the fact that the set command outputs quoted values, while the printenv and env commands do not quote the values of strings. This should still give you a good idea of the environmental and shell variables that are set in your session. These variables are used for all sorts of things. They provide an alternative way of setting persistent values for the session between processes, without writing changes to a file.
Some environmental and shell variables are very useful and are referenced fairly often. Here are some common environmental variables that you will come across:. To better understand the difference between shell and environmental variables, and to introduce the syntax for setting these variables, we will do a small demonstration.
We will begin by defining a shell variable within our current session. This is easy to accomplish; we only need to specify a name and a value. We now have a shell variable. This variable is available in our current session, but will not be passed down to child processes. We can verify that this is not an environmental variable by trying the same thing with printenv :. The shell takes this to mean that it should substitute the value of the variable when it comes across this.
So now we have a shell variable. We can spawn a new bash shell from within our current one to demonstrate:. If we type bash to spawn a child shell, and then try to access the contents of the variable, nothing will be returned. This is what we expected.
We can do this by exporting the variable. The command to do so is appropriately named:. This will change our variable into an environmental variable. We can check this by checking our environmental listing again:. Our child shell has received the variable set by its parent. We can set environmental variables in a single step like this:. This is because environmental variables are only passed to child processes.
This is good in most cases and prevents programs from affecting the operating environment from which they were called. This variable would be available to itself and any of its child shells and processes. When we exited back into our main shell, that environment was destroyed. We can change it back into a shell variable by typing:. If we want to completely unset a variable, either shell or environmental, we can do so with the unset command:. We do not want to have to set important variables up every time we start a new shell session, and we have already seen how many variables are already set upon login, so how do we make and define variables automatically?
This is actually a more complex problem than it initially seems, due to the numerous configuration files that the bash shell reads depending on how it is started. One distinction between different sessions is whether the shell is being spawned as a login or non-login session.
A login shell is a shell session that begins by authenticating the user.
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