printenv(1)

printenv1

Print all or part of environment

Usage

printenv [OPTION] [VARIABLE] ...

Overview

Print the values of the specified environment VARIABLE(s). If no VARIABLE is specified, print name and value pairs for them all.

-0, --null

end each output line with NUL, not newline

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Your shell may have its own version of printenv, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 15 times.

  1. 1.1–1.2
  2. 1.3–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0
  8. 6.0
  9. 7
  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. 13
  16. Arch

--null since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -0 since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

Author

Written by David MacKenzie and Richard Mlynarik.

Reporting bugs

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From coreutils 9.12-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.