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 “” key to auto complete your environment variables.

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

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