kpn...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 07:41:35PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
This is what I am looking at in a sh script

echo export jail_${jailname}_hostname=\"${jailname}\"
puts it into the env
and this brings it back out
eval jailname=\"\$jail_${jailname}_hostname\"

Question is how can I display from the console command
line what has been exported?

env issued on the console command line does not show
any thing named jail.

Environment variables are only exported to children of the shell that
created or inherited them. When you run a script you normally have your
command line shell start a child shell which then executes the script.
When the child shell that runs the script finishes the script it ends and
control returns to the parent. The child's environment at this point is
gone, but the parent couldn't have looked at it anyway. Parents don't
really know what their children are doing.

So, to answer your question above, "You can't display from the console
what was set in a script."

OK then from within a script what single command would show everything?
I tested with a script with only the env command and did not get any thing more than issuing env from the console command line.
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