On Monday 21 March 2005 14:09, Longman, Bill wrote: > From your shell prompt, you can see what your current environment (for your > [probably] bash shell) looks like with the "set" command.
"set" show all shell variables (and shell functions) not just environment variables. "env" just show environment variables. > One thing the shell allows you to do is limit which environment variables > get "exported" to subprocesses. (Subprocesses are any external commands > i.e., not shell builtins, you run from the command line.) Use the "env" > command to see which ones they are. You should notice that the list of > environment variables returned from the "env" command are fewer than the > number of variables listed from the "set" command. > > By default, environment variables in the shell are local variables. You > have to manually export them if you want subshells to know about them. An exported shell variable /is/ an environment variable. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
