linux_env_variables.sh

#!/bin/bash

# ==============================================================================
# LINUX ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES VALUE VIEWER
# ==============================================================================

# --- 1. USER & IDENTITY INFORMATION ---
export USER="${USER:-$(whoami)}"
export LOGNAME="${LOGNAME:-$USER}"
export HOME="${HOME:-/home/$USER}"
export UID="$(id -u)"

# --- 2. SHELL & TERMINAL INTERACTION ---
export SHELL="${SHELL:-/bin/bash}"
export TERM="${TERM:-xterm-256color}"
export PS1='\[\e[1;32m\]\u@\h\[\e[m\]:\[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[m\]\$ '
export PS2='> '

# --- 3. SYSTEM PATHS & BINARIES ---
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

# --- 4. PREFERRED SYSTEM APPLICATIONS ---
export EDITOR="nano"
export VISUAL="nano"
export PAGER="less"
export BROWSER="firefox"

# --- 5. SHELL HISTORY MANAGEMENT ---
export HISTSIZE=5000
export HISTFILESIZE=10000
export HISTCONTROL="ignoredups:ignorespace"
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

# --- 6. LOCALIZATION & LANGUAGE ---
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export TZ="UTC"

# --- 7. HARDWARE, GRAPHICS & X11 ---
export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:0.0}"
export XAUTHORITY="$HOME/.Xauthority"

# --- 8. DEVELOPMENT RUNTIMES ---
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"
export GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
export NODE_ENV="production"
export PYTHONSTARTUP="$HOME/.pythonrc"

# --- 9. COMPILER & BUILD FLAGS ---
export CC="gcc"
export CXX="g++"
export CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall"

# --- 10. SYSTEMD & XDG SPECIFICATIONS ---
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$UID"

# ==============================================================================
# FORMATTED OUTPUT BLOCK
# ==============================================================================
echo "--- Current Script Variables ---"
echo "Your user name is: $USER"
echo "Your logname is: $LOGNAME"
echo "Your home directory is: $HOME"
echo "Your User ID (UID) is: $UID"
echo "Your default shell is: $SHELL"
echo "Your terminal type is: $TERM"
echo "Your primary prompt format (PS1) is: $PS1"
echo "Your secondary prompt (PS2) is: $PS2"
echo "Your system executable PATH is: $PATH"
echo "Your library PATH is: $LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
echo "Your default text editor is: $EDITOR"
echo "Your default visual editor is: $VISUAL"
echo "Your system terminal pager is: $PAGER"
echo "Your default web browser is: $BROWSER"
echo "Your history size (in memory) is: $HISTSIZE"
echo "Your history file size (disk) is: $HISTFILESIZE"
echo "Your history control rule is: $HISTCONTROL"
echo "Your history time format is: $HISTTIMEFORMAT"
echo "Your primary language setting is: $LANG"
echo "Your global locale fallback is: $LC_ALL"
echo "Your current timezone is: $TZ"
echo "Your graphical X11 display is: $DISPLAY"
echo "Your X11 authority file path is: $XAUTHORITY"
echo "Your Java Home directory is: $JAVA_HOME"
echo "Your Go language binary root is: $GOROOT"
echo "Your Go workspace path is: $GOPATH"
echo "Your Node environment mode is: $NODE_ENV"
echo "Your Python startup script is: $PYTHONSTARTUP"
echo "Your standard C compiler is: $CC"
echo "Your standard C++ compiler is: $CXX"
echo "Your default C compilation flags: $CFLAGS"
echo "Your XDG user config directory is: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME"
echo "Your XDG user data directory is: $XDG_DATA_HOME"
echo "Your XDG user cache directory is: $XDG_CACHE_HOME"
echo "Your XDG runtime session path is: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
echo "--------------------------------"

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