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66-getenv

66-getenv gets and displays the environment variables of a process name.

Interface

    66-getenv [ -h ] [ -x ] [ -d delim ] process

  • It find the corresponding pid of the process name applying a regex search.

  • It open and read /proc/<pid>/environ file and displays its contain.

Exit codes

  • 0 success
  • 100 wrong usage
  • 111 system call failed

Options

  • -h : prints this help.

  • -x : match exactly with the process name. It can be a complete command line, in such case its must be double-quoted.

  • -d delim : specify output delimiter. The default is \n character.

Usage example

    66-getenv -x jwm
    66-getenv "ck-launch-session"

Note

The file /proc/<pid>/environ contains the initial environment that was set when the currently executing program was started via execve(2). If, after an execve(2), the process modifies its environment (e.g., by calling functions such as putenv(3) or modifying the environ(7) variable directly), this file will not reflect those changes—see proc(5) for futher informations.