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procenv is a simple command-line utility, written in C and licensed under the GPL, that dumps all attributes of the environment [1] in which it runs, in well-structured plain ASCII, JSON (YAML), XML or CSV.

It is useful as a test tool, to understand what environment a process runs in and for system comparison.

procenv runs on the following operating systems:

  • Android
  • FreeBSD
  • GNU Hurd
  • GNU Linux
  • Minix 3
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • OSX

It unashamedly emulates a number of existing system utilities as it is attempting to be all-encompassing: I wrote it with the aim of being able to dump "everything" that a process may care about by simply running a single program (by default). Also, the line of demarcation between "process", "program" and "system" is slightly blurry in some aspects. For example sysconf(3) variables could arguably be considered system attributes, but procenv shows these too since they are obviously meant to be queryable by applications.

[1]If you find anything missing, please either raise a bug or send a patch :)

procenv is extremely useful for learning about the environment software builds in. Often, such systems disallow login, but do allow access to log files. Handily, procenv runs a battery of tests on build including running itself so that the build environment gets captured in the builds logs themselves. Select a link below and drill down to the build log to see the procenv output:

If you distro does not yet provide a procenv package, binary packages for RHEL, Fedora, Centos, SLES, and Arch Linux are available from here:

Click on your icon for your distro and follow the instructions.

Note that these packages are "bleeding edge" (generated directly from the github repository).

Click the "twisty" triangle to the left of the release number under a release name, then click one of the build links (like "amd64)":

https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/+recipe/procenv-daily

procenv gets run from within sbuild via a DEP-8 test:

procenv gets run from within pbuilder via a DEP-8 test:

Logs used to be available, but sadly it appears pointyhat.freebsd.com has been taken offline (any replacement?)

Can you help port procenv to other platforms (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, ...)? If so, please get in contact.

See http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.com/2012/10/procenv-and-process-environment.html

procenv was written by James Hunt <[email protected]>.

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