glab(1)

💅 glab(1) — glab-variable-get

ok so real talk, bestie, this is a page from the glab manual (yes, that glab, the GitLab CLI) and today's main character is glab-variable-get. it's a whole vibe, i promise 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

glab-variable-get — get a variable for a project or group 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

glab variable get  [flags]

(yes king, that's the whole incantation 🔥)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what it does: it prints out the value of one variable, and you find it by its key 🔑. simple. chic. iconic.

want a variable that lives in a specific environment? you're gonna use --scope for that 🌸. and if you'd rather read a group variable instead of a project one? that's --group's whole job, she's got you 💅.

ok now here's the tea ☕ — by default this command reads one level only. that's it. one. no wandering off 🔒.

but if you pass --inherited, it'll fall back to the groups above the project, and then to the instance, following the exact order CI resolves a variable in:

1. the project first 🥇
2. then each parent group, closest first 🧚
3. then instance variables 🌈

and a very important lil detail: a level that doesn't define the key, or that you can't read, is just skipped 💀 — no drama, no error, it moves on. and instance variables apply to every environment, which means --scope does not filter them 🙈 (that's just how it is, bestie).

💖 quick vibe check: this is a get. it reads a thing. it does not set, edit, or delete anything. no cap.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -g, --group="" — get the variable for a group instead 🫂
• --inherited[=false] — if the key isn't defined at the level you picked, go look in the groups above it, and then in instance variables. the fallback queen 👑
• --jq="" — filter the JSON output with a jq expression ✨ (for the gworls who like their data sculpted)
• -F, --output="text" — format the output as: text, json 📦
• -s, --scope="" — the environment_scope of the variable. values: all (written as (), empty), or specific environments 🌍

✨ OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS ✨

these aren't even hers, she's just holding them for her parents 🎀

• -h, --help[=false] — show help for this command 🆘
• -R, --repo="" — select another repository. you can use either OWNER/REPO or GROUP/NAMESPACE/REPO. the full URL or Git URL is also accepted 🌐 (flexible? we love her)

✨ EXAMPLE ✨

here's how the girlies actually run it 💅:

glab variable get VAR_KEY
glab variable get -g GROUP VAR_KEY
glab variable get -s SCOPE VAR_KEY

# Read the project, then its parent groups, then the instance
glab variable get --inherited VAR_KEY

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• glab-variable(1) — the whole variable family, go say hi 👋

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🦋 and that's the page!! go get those variables, bestie, you're literally gonna slay it ✨

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