It depends on what you want

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM, narendra sisodiya <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Debasish Ray Chawdhuri <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> The bashrc is in /etc directory.
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> Wrong,, this will affect system level setting
>
> use
> /home/usename/.bashrc file
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>> And if you don't export, the variable will not be available to the child
>> shells, one of which is your command prompt.
>> So, Narendra is right. Modifying .bashrc of root will only affect root's
>> environment.
>>
>> you can do either export var='asdfa', or  var='asdfa' and then export var.
>> Both of these have the same effect.
>> --
>> Debasish Ray Chawdhuri
>> Dept. of Textile Technology,
>> IIT Delhi
>>
>>  --
>> l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
>>
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-- 
Debasish Ray Chawdhuri
Dept. of Textile Technology,
IIT Delhi

-- 
l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm

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