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

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