Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:45 +0100, Giles Anderson wrote:
>> export ORAENV_ASK=NO
>> export ORACLE_SID=SID1
>> source oraenv
>
> Not answering your question, but: please don't use this format. This
> results in your configure file being egregiously and needlessly
> bash-specific; it is not portable and will not run with POSIX-compliant
> sh implementations.
This makes it sounds as if "export VAR=VALUE" were bash-specific,
but in fact this syntax is part of POSIX:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/export.html
"source" is not part of POSIX.
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
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