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PE03-Environment Variables

This document outlines a practical exercise for students to learn about environment variables in a Linux OS. It includes steps to view, modify, and export environment variables such as $PWD, $HOME, $EUID, $PATH, and $PS1, as well as creating a new variable MYVAR. The exercise emphasizes the importance of understanding how to manipulate and examine environment variables within the Linux shell.

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PE03-Environment Variables

This document outlines a practical exercise for students to learn about environment variables in a Linux OS. It includes steps to view, modify, and export environment variables such as $PWD, $HOME, $EUID, $PATH, and $PS1, as well as creating a new variable MYVAR. The exercise emphasizes the importance of understanding how to manipulate and examine environment variables within the Linux shell.

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Lab 03 - Environment Variables

This Practical Exercise will take students through the use of environmental
variables in a Linux OS. This includes entries within, modifying and exporting a
modification of variables.
**Ensure you are in your home directory /home/yourlastname.**

1 - View the $PWD environment variable


echo $PWD
This another way of getting the same information as the pwd command.

2 - View the $HOME environment variable


echo $HOME
The results show the home directory of the user you are logged in as.

3 – View the $EUID environment variable


echo $EUID
This shows the ID number of the user account running the commands.

4 – View the $PATH environment variable


echo $PATH
This tells the shell which directories to search for executable files in response to
commands issued by a user.

5 – View the $PS1environment variable


echo $PS1
This defines the prompt used in your shell. This information is how your shell
prompt is displaying the currently logged-in user, the name of the Linux host, the
full path to the current working directory, and a colon.

6 - Change the shell prompt display to add the current time.


PS1='[\u@\h \t \w]:'

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Now your shell prompt will display the currently logged-in user, the name of the
Linux host, the current time, the full path to the current working directory, and a
colon

7 - Examine ALL of the environment variables including globals, local and shell
options. ( | more will display the information one screen at a time)
set | more (hit the space bar to advance another screen full or the enter key
to advance on line at a time, hit the letter q to quit and go back to your prompt)

8 - Create a new environment variable called MYVAR with a value of 10


MYVAR=10

9 - Examine the contents of MYVAR with echo.


echo $MYVAR

10 - Examine ALL of the global variables


env | more You will not see MYVAR at this time because it is still an
environmental varriable.

11 - Make a custom variable global.


export MYVAR

12 - Run the env command again to see that MYVAR is now an exported global
variable.
env | more (you should see MYVAR=10 around the 10th line)

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