List all environment variables from the command line

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Is it possible to list all environment variables from a Windows  command prompt   Something equivalent to PowerShell s gci env   or ls env  or dir env

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To list all environment variables in PowerShell:

Get-ChildItem Env:

Or as suggested by user797717 to avoid output truncation:

Get-ChildItem Env: | Format-Table -Wrap -AutoSize

Source: Creating and Modifying Environment Variables (Windows PowerShell Tip of the Week)

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You can use SET in cmd  To show the current variable  just SET is enough  To show certain variable such as  PATH   use SET PATH   For help  type set

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Don t lose time  Search for it in the registry   reg query  HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Session Manager Environment    returns less than the SET command

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Simply run set from cmd      Displays  sets  or removes environment variables  Used without parameters  set displays the current environment settings

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If you want to see the environment variable you just set  you need to open a new command window      Variables set with setx variables are available in future command windows only  not in the current command window   Setx  Examples

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Just do   SET   You can also do SET prefix to see all variables with names starting with prefix   For example  if you want to read only derbydb from the environment variables  do the following    set derby       and you will get the following    DERBY HOME c  Users amro-a Desktop db-derby-10 10 1 1-bin db-derby-10 10 1 1-bin

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As mentioned in other answers  you can use set to list all the environment variables or use  set  environment variable  to get a specific variable with its value   set  environment variable   can be used to remove a variable from the workspace

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Jon has the right answer  but to elaborate a little more with some syntactic sugar    SET   more   enables you to see the variables one page at a time  rather than the whole lot  or  SET  gt  output txt   sends the output to a file output txt which you can open in Notepad or whatever

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