Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

Getting ready

Variables are named as a sequence of letters, numbers, and underscores with no whitespace. Common conventions are to use UPPER_CASE for environment variables and camelCase or lower_case for variables used within a script.

All applications and scripts can access the environment variables. To view all the environment variables defined in your current shell, issue the env or printenv command:

$> env 
PWD=/home/clif/ShellCookBook 
HOME=/home/clif 
SHELL=/bin/bash 
# ... And many more lines

To view the environment of other processes, use the following command:

cat /proc/$PID/environ

Set PID with a process ID of the process (PID is an integer value).

Assume an application called gedit is running. We obtain the process ID of gedit ...