quick access to your environment variables

Here’s a quick way to access your environment variables from the CLI.

User the “%” key in conjunction with your “<tab>” key to auto complete your environment variables.

pandora:/ # echo $J <TAB>
$JAVA_BINDIR  $JAVA_HOME    $JAVA_ROOT    $JDK_HOME     $JRE_HOME
pandora:/ # echo $JAVA_ <TAB>
$JAVA_BINDIR  $JAVA_HOME    $JAVA_ROOT
pandora:/ # echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java

The traditional way is to “env | grep [variable name]“