Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:12:28 -0800 From: Jim Mock <jim@lust.geekhouse.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to Show Environment Variables Message-ID: <20001105101228.A2642@envy.geekhouse.net> In-Reply-To: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF6E7@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>; from drewt@writeme.com on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:29:18AM -0800 References: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF6E7@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 at 08:29:18 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm looking through both the man pages and The Complete FreeBSD but > can not locate the command to show what a environment variable is > currently set. My shell is tcsh and I have found the 'setenv' > command. I've tried this with no success (i.e., 'setenv PATH'). You can use one of two things. Using env will give show you every variable currently set. Using echo $VARIABLE will show you that variable. For example, echo $PATH, or echo $SHELL. > I would also like to know how to show the current system time. I've > found the 'time' command but this doesn't appear to be what I want. You want the man page for date. > Is there a web page somewhere that lists some of these simple > commands? http://www.FreeBSD.org/tutorials/new-users/ has some of them listed along with what they do. - jim -- jim mock <jim@jmock.com> work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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