process-env

process-env prints the environment variables of a process, typically the current user's desktop session, as shell commands to set those variables or as JSON. This is useful if you want to access an ssh-agent started for your desktop session in a remote session and in similar scenarios.

process-env can output specific or all environment variables of a process. The default environment variables are:

• DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
• DISPLAY
• SSH_AUTH_SOCK
• WAYLAND_DISPLAY
• XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Installation

You will need Go 1.22.

go install dbohdan.com/process-env@master

Compatibility

process-env is known to work on:

• FreeBSD 14
• Linux
• Windows 10

It is known to not work on:

• macOS
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD

Usage

process-env [options] (pid|process-name) [var-name ...]

Specifying one or more variable names overrides the default list.

Options:

• -a, --all — output all environment variables
• -f, --fish — output fish shell commands
• -j, --json — output JSON
• -p, --posix — output POSIX shell commands (default)

Examples

Get the default environment variables from a MATE session process using POSIX syntax:

process-env mate-session

Get only the DISPLAY environment variable from a KDE Plasma shell process using fish syntax:

process-env -f plasmashell DISPLAY

License

MIT. See the file LICENSE.