ENV()

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Gets or sets the environment variable specified.

Last reviewed 2026-04-14

ENV(varname)
Description

Variables starting with AST_ are reserved to the system and may not be set.

Additionally, the following system variables are available as special built-in dialplan variables. These variables cannot be set or modified and are read-only.

  • EPOCH - Current unix style epoch
  • SYSTEMNAME - value of the systemname option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTCACHEDIR - value of the astcachedir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTETCDIR - value of the astetcdir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTMODDIR - value of the astmoddir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTVARLIBDIR - value of the astvarlib option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTDBDIR - value of the astdbdir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTKEYDIR - value of the astkeydir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTDATADIR - value of the astdatadir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTAGIDIR - value of the astagidir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTSPOOLDIR - value of the astspooldir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTRUNDIR - value of the astrundir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTLOGDIR - value of the astlogdir option from asterisk.conf
  • ASTSBINDIR - value of the astsbindir option from asterisk.conf
  • ENTITYID - Global Entity ID set automatically, or from asterisk.conf
Arguments
  • varname required - Environment variable name

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