On Mon, 16 May 2016 09:25:14 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I'm not even real familiar with UNIX export and I expected it to work the >other way. You set a value and then you send (export) it somewhere, no? > POSIX shell: Either way (almost). Note the surprising semantics of special builtins. "unset" complicates things.
C Shell has distinct "set" and "setenv" commands, with irritatingly different syntax. (cf. Tom Christiansen; we don't need a thread bemoaning C shell.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
