At 5:11 pm, Sunday, June 8 2003, Robert Tillsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mumbled:
> I've got it running, though I needed to remove the $. Do you know if its a
> permanent change, or do I need to do this every time I log in?
>
Right, I said this, I should explain:
> > broken:~# export VISUAL="$(which ed)"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which ed
/bin/ed
$() is a subshell, so that sets VISUAL to /bin/ed.
Now, to answer your question, it's not a permanent change. You need to do
something like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep export .bash_profile | head -1
export MAILNAME="Steve Kowalik"
Cheers,
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Steve
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