From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 12:18:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24102 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24006 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:17:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 0z6gOp-0000e9-00; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:17:31 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA01911; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:17:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: BASH prompt question [Env var style] To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com cc: Sascha Schumann , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" In-Reply-To: <19980812110825.A20682@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am normally a bash user but when forced I will use ksh. I generally use > > export foo=blah This now works in bash too; but I developed the 'declare -x' habit years ago and keep forgetting about the 'export' form. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message