On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> WHen I export a JAVA_HOME, am I appending to a file somewhere for a new
> place to include when looking for java files? Or am I overwriting the
> path (therefore making my other java homes not work anymore?) If
> there's a file I'm writing to, what is it?
you might try 'man bash' or 'man setenv'
>From what i've gleaned by digging through various /etc files and frequent use
of export myself, i dont think it necessarily overwrites anything. I think its
just treated as a seperate environment variable. If you look in /etc/profile
you see that there are several variables defined then all issued via one export
command. So i think bash just treats each successive export as just another
one. I think that anything exported via CLI only is in effect till logout. . .
.. . .this is all probably wrong and im doing alot of guessing assuming and
going on what ive seen/done/heard. . .someone correct me please!
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