Reading a variable I set within Terminal osx 10.9

Question

I want to add a few temp variables within terminal. I have tried this after searching the problem:

export value=10
export path=/Users/..../..../....., etc.

The problem is that I can't read the values back in order to confirm if they have stored correctly?

Possible duplicate of [Setting environment variables in OS X?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x) — jww, Aug 16 '14 at 20:25
Not really a duplicate -- the other question asks about how to set variables permanently, system-wide, and doesn't touch upon how to access their values. — tripleee, Aug 17 '14 at 07:23

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '14 at 20:14

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You can access your variables with $variablename.

Try e.g.

echo "$path"

answered Aug 16 '14 at 20:14

tripleee

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