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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:46:15 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: change environment variable
Message-ID:  <200310081046.15434.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031008151936.GA52088@ns2.wananchi.com>
References:  <20031008151936.GA52088@ns2.wananchi.com>

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On Wednesday 08 October 2003 08:19 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 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

This depends on your shell. Csh uses "setenv variable value".

> 2. Any gotchas that I may face.

No idea here.

Kent
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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