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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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