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Subject: Re: change environment variable
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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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