From the command line, you should be able to type "set" to see what's in your current environment. All of those values will be passed to any program you run.
To see the environment for a running process, it's a bit more challenging. Some Unixes make it easier to view the environment of a running process by interrogating the kernel. For example, in Linux you can just read /proc/$PID/environ to see the environment for a process with a pid of $PID. This file is Linux-specific however, so the BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, etc will all have different techniques. If the kernel doesn't expose the information the way Linux does, you may have to use some kind of debugger like gdb or strace to view the process' information. -- Sam Clippinger BC wrote: > On 4/9/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The fact that environment variables are not easily visible to >> external viewers is a show-stopper for me. > > I have extremely rudimentary skills here. Is there a way in *nix to > display what is "in" 'the environment'? > > Bucky > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
