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If I wrote

export COMP_WORDS="this words"

I need something like

get-exported COMP_WORDS

expecting something like

COMP_WORDS="this words"

I tried

set | grep COMP_WORDS

but it takes others lines

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answered 2 Years ago erettor · Accepted Answer

To get the value of VARIABLE you can use

echo $VARIABLE

The quotes don't survive though

$ COMP_WORDS="you said what?"

$ echo $COMP_WORDS

you said what?

Unless you quote them...

$ quote='"2b || !2b"'

$ echo $quote

"2b || !2b"

It makes no difference whether you set the variable yourself or not