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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Finding WHERE an environment variable is defined. Post 302514970 by dissectcode on Monday 18th of April 2011 03:22:40 PM
Old 04-18-2011
Finding WHERE an environment variable is defined.

HI. I had an environment variable defined in my .bash_profile file and I deleted it. I opened a new terminal and looked inside .bash_profile and it's not there but when I type

Code:
printenv MYCONFIG

it reutrns what the value used to be in my .bash_profile still!! I did a grep for MYCONFIG and the only place it showed up was .bash_history, and I even tried deleting that! What is the command to not just print the environment variable but to print where it is coming from? Why is it still defined!? SmilieSmilieSmilie
 

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printenv(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      printenv(1B)

NAME
printenv - display environment variables currently set SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/printenv [variable] DESCRIPTION
printenv prints out the values of the variables in the environment. If a variable is specified, only its value is printed. 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. SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 printenv(1B)
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