What are shell variables?

Shell variables are special variables, a name-value pair created and maintained by the shell. Example: PATH, HOME, MAIL and TERM
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Sunil J

  • Feb 23rd, 2006
 

shell variables are system environment variables.they include

TERM,SHELL, MAIL

the output of the shell variable we can see by typing the command

$>echo $TERM

ansi

at the prompt.

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Chiranjeevi Manne

  • Mar 28th, 2007
 

There are variable shell variable which would fix the environment once the user logs into OS.

One can find shell variables by issuing "env"

Example shell variables are PATH, TERM, HOME, SHELL etc...

One can define his own shell variables and enter them in "/etc/bashrc" file so that they will take into effect whenever they log into OS.

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gthosani1

  • Dec 18th, 2007
 

Variables in UNIX is the way to pass information from the shell to the program

Shell variables apply to the current instance of the shell and are used to set short term working condition

They are represented in LOWER case

In C shell they are located in .cshrc file

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rupesh kumar

  • Dec 17th, 2013
 

Shell variables are special variables, a name-value pair created and maintained by the shell. Example: PATH, HOME, MAIL

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