How to list variables declared in script in bash?

In my script in bash, there are lot of variables, and I have to make something to save them to file. My question is how to list all variables declared in my script and get list like this:

VARIABLE1=abc
VARIABLE2=def
VARIABLE3=ghi

set will output the variables, unfortunately it will also output the functions defines as well.

Luckily POSIX mode only outputs the variables:

( set -o posix ; set ) | less

Piping to less, or redirect to where you want the options.

So to get the variables declared in just the script:

( set -o posix ; set ) >/tmp/variables.before
source script
( set -o posix ; set ) >/tmp/variables.after
diff /tmp/variables.before /tmp/variables.after
rm /tmp/variables.before /tmp/variables.after

(Or at least something based on that :-) )

compgen -v

It lists all variables including local ones. I learned it from Get list of variables whose name matches a certain pattern, and used it in my script.

for i in _ {a..z} {A..Z}; do eval "echo \${!$i@}" ; done | xargs printf "%s\n"

This must print all shell variables names. You can get a list before and after sourcing your file just like with "set" to diff which variables are new (as explained in the other answers). But keep in mind such filtering with diff can filter out some variables that you need but were present before sourcing your file.

In your case, if you know your variables' names start with "VARIABLE", then you can source your script and do:

for var in ${!VARIABLE@}; do
   printf "%s%q\n" "$var=" "${!var}"
done

UPDATE: For pure BASH solution (no external commands used):

for i in _ {a..z} {A..Z}; do
   for var in `eval echo "\\${!$i@}"`; do
      echo $var
      # you can test if $var matches some criteria and put it in the file or ignore
   done 
done

Based on some of the above answers, this worked for me:

before=$(set -o posix; set | sort);

source file:

comm -13 <(printf %s "$before") <(set -o posix; set | sort | uniq) 

If you can post-process, (as already mentioned) you might just place a set call at the beginning and end of your script (each to a different file) and do a diff on the two files. Realize that this will still contain some noise.

You can also do this programatically. To limit the output to just your current scope, you would have to implement a wrapper to variable creation. For example

store() {
    export ${1}="${*:2}"
    [[ ${STORED} =~ "(^| )${1}($| )" ]] || STORED="${STORED} ${1}"
}

store VAR1 abc
store VAR2 bcd
store VAR3 cde

for i in ${STORED}; do
    echo "${i}=${!i}"
done

Which yields

VAR1=abc
VAR2=bcd
VAR3=cde