how would i see all environmental variables beginning with a specific term?

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I'm just wondering how to list Environmental Variables that would begin with something specific (say i wanted all the Environmental Variables that began with "we") in OSX. i understand how to print them all but can't work out how to search for a specific one.

Any help would be appreciated greatly!

squarefrog · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-07 15:26:39Z

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You can just pipe the printenv command through grep.

printenv | grep -i "we"

The -i flag tells grep to search case-insensitively.

edited Jan 7, 2015 at 15:26

answered Jan 7, 2015 at 15:17

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twalberg Over a year ago

That should probably be grep -i '^we'... Otherwise you're finding variables that contain "we" instead of start with "we", and also may have "we" in the value instead of the name...

sphaughton Over a year ago

hi, i actually worked this out shortly after posting. thanks for the help, everyone.

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