Re: environment stuff.

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 29, 2014, at 10:59 PM, TJ Luoma <luomat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I thought that `printenv` showed a list of all known variables and their values, but I recently realized that it was missing a lot of them.
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> Q » Is `typeset` what I should use for that? Or is there a better way?
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> For example, I have sometimes used `printenv > all-vars.txt` to get a 'snapshot' of current variables. Seems like `typeset > all-vars.txt` is much better. I just compared them and `typeset` shows 291 vs `printenv` showing 110.

Not all zsh parameters are exported to the environment. `printenv` only prints those parameters that have been exported. `typeset` prints *all* parameters.

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