From 46d2cf99d9c4ef93e6b08c7fa5823ca29fe7f145 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Miller <seth@four43.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:55:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added plaintext/linux utility example

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 README.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 env-aws-params --prefix /common /bin/bash -c set
 ```
 
+To get a plaintext output of your environment variables to use with other utilities, we can use `printenv`:
+```bash
+env-aws-params --silent --prefix /service-prefix /usr/bin/printenv > ~/some-file.sh
+```
+Which will write your environment variables in plain text, for example:
+```bash
+# ~/some-file.sh Contents:
+ENV_VAR1=example
+ENV_VAR2=test-value
+```
+
 ## CLI Options
 
 ```