【Shell脚本基础系列-3】环境变量

目录

1. 入门
2. if-else分支和for/while循环
3. 环境变量
4. 函数的使用
5. 文件读写操作
6. 睡眠
7. 进程状态监测
8. 用户交互

Environment Variables

Environment variables are like our own variables, but they are defined for us by the system, allowing us to know things about our script’s environment.

A small list of Environment Variables:

• HOME: user’s home directory
• PATH: directories which are searched for commands
• HOSTNAME: hostname of the machine
• SHELL: shell that is being used
• USER: user of this session
• TERM: type of command-line terminal that is being used

An example

You may change the content of the environment variables and then use them in your own script. However, those changes are not global and thus are temporary. Environment variables will revert to the way that they were set after that.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo "The PATH is: $PATH"
echo "The TERMINAL is: $TERM"

if [ -z $EDITOR] 
then
    echo "The EDITOR var is not set"
fi

PATH="/some_path"
echo "The PATH is: $PATH"   
# The PATH will revert to the way that they were set before your script run.

exit 0

References

LinkedIn Learning: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-linux-shell-scripting-2018