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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:19:36 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   change environment variable
Message-ID:  <20031008151936.GA52088@ns2.wananchi.com>

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Hi all,

when I do echo $COLUMNS, I see the value 131.
Now this variable is not exported at all from my shell and I need to
change it to 72.

Does anyone have clues on
1. How to change it
2. Any gotchas that I may face.


Thanks


-Wash

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