"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Loo, Peter # PHX wrote:
>
> > Example:
> >
> > export SOMETHING="A_VALUE"
>
> Right, I understand what exporting variables are. You said 'like in
> Unix'. Where are you trying to export variables 'like in Unix'? Sun OS
> IS Unix, but if you are using ksh and not bash, you can't do it in one
> line, you have to create the variable and then export it.
Sorry,
export FOO=BAR
works in ksh. It's Bourne shell (sh) where that doesn't work.
>
> -- Brett
> http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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> In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in
> the proper order then why can't he?
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