Hi SO
I have a ridiculous question due to a ridiculous problem.
Normally if I want to get the contents of an environment variable in UNIX shell, I can do
echo ${VAR}
Let's assume, due to my ridiculous situation, that this isn't possible.
How do I get the contents of an environment variable to stdout, without someone who is lookin...
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This would be a Linux version of t...
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