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Discussion on: Linux Commands: printenv

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Michael Currin

printenv FOO is longer to type than echo $FOO and also it is less flexible. You can't do something like echo "$FOO $BAR"

Maybe you can make an alias:

alias p=printenv
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So you can run

p FOO
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