PRINTENV(1) BSD General Commands Manual PRINTENV(1) NAME printenv — print out the environment SYNOPSIS printenv [name] DESCRIPTION The printenv utility prints out the names and values of the variables in the environment, with one name/value pair per line. If name is speci‐ fied, only its value is printed. Some shells may provide a builtin printenv command which is similar or identical to this utility. Consult the builtin(1) manual page. EXIT STATUS The printenv utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO csh(1), env(1), sh(1), environ(7) STANDARDS The printenv utility is provided for compatibility with earlier BSD and FreeBSD releases and is not specified by any standards. The functional‐ ity of printenv can be duplicated with the echo(1) and env(1) utilities. HISTORY The printenv command appeared in 3.0BSD. BSD May 12, 2003 BSD