# Environment Variables

The GearLock environment variables can be used to access some common data. You must keep in mind that these are only useable during GearLock or GearBoot runtime.

*Global ones are available on both GearLock & GearBoot

This is the place where GearBoot mounts the android-x86 OS partition.

On calling this var it will return /gearlock/gearroot

This is the place where the actual android-x86 OS files exist.

By this I mean the place where you find files like initrd.img ramdisk.img kernel

On calling this var it will return the directory path where the actual OS files exist.

On calling this var it returns either x86 or x86_64

Note: This is not 100% accurate since it's depended on lib64 dir existence. (A better implementaion is suggested)

Return's android version code, like 7.1/8.0/9.0 ++

Note: It's based on ro.build.version.sdk

Return's the SDK version code.

The value of this var is set to yes when GearBoot is running during boot. Otherwise it's empty.

Example:

echo $GBRUNTIME

Output: yes

Returns current date.

Returns current year.

ghome is the place where GearLock stores extensions, gearboot scripts, common dependencie directory, status log files. It also contains the .gearlockrc

If gearlock came pre-installed into your system then $GHOME path should be /system/ghome
While if it was a manual installation then $GHOME path should be /data/ghome Note: It doesn't matter even if you move swap it between /system & /data.

Other vars depended on $GHOME >

• DEPDIR=$GHOME/dependencies
• STATDIR=$GHOME/status
• GBDIR=$GHOME/gearboot

$GTMP path is /gearlock/tmp

This place is temporary and gets cleaned up on boot.

Only use this for storing small temp files if you want to use this place.

Returns the path for gearload directory

When the user is running GearLock in early Recovery mode this is set to yes. Otherwise it's empty.

The interface which is being used. From either classic or metro.

Is yes or not empty once the OS has completely landed on GUI. Otherwise it returns no.

Full accessible path to currently booted kernel image.

Full path to .gearlockrc file within $GHOME.

Returns yes when the user is using GearLock from within the GUI (Except tty) throough some terminal emulation application. (This includes $GEARLOCK_APP also). Otherwise it returns no.

Returns yes when GearLock terminal application is running. Otherwise it returns no.

Returns GearLock version code.