On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:40:22PM +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > I'm looking at "export" within the context trying to find out where > environment variables are stored. In windows it's possible to bring > up all the environment variables; I assume the same can be done with > linux. my question should've been: where do I find the environment > variables? Just as in Windows, each process has its own copy of the environment. You can get a list at a prompt with "printenv". Or, you could use the 'getenv' system call in a program. Or in a perl one-liner: perl -e 'foreach (keys %ENV) { print "$_=$ENV{$_}\n;" }' -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit.