How can I display a list of current environment variables and also recognized regular expressions....

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:41 -0400, John Toliver wrote:
> I'm looking for the equivalent of the "SET" command in windows.  also
> if in windows if I typed something like "c:\copy *.* d:\" where can I
> find a list of "*.*" that linux recognizes.  I'm trying to get the
> basics of scripting.  I'm sorry I don't know any more useful ways of
> describing it.
> 
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To get a list of environment variables that are set, i.e., "SET" in DOS
or Windows, use  "set" without the quotes, in a terminal. This gives a
pretty big list, since the environment does not have the same
limitations in linux as DOS. I normally use 
     set > ~/Desktop/set-variables.text
which prints the variables to a file "set-variables.text" on my Desktop.
This way I can find them and view them with gedit.

good luck,

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