Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:18:24 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Variable assignment in sh Message-ID: <20170131161824.a9f1ef46.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <b831bd9e40321e59910ea8913c7a6302.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <b831bd9e40321e59910ea8913c7a6302.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:06:37 -0500, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > Why am I getting this result when I attempt a simple variable > assignment in the default sh? > > # ENV=$HOME/.shrc; export ENV > ENV=/root/.shrc: Command not found. > export: Command not found. > > This example is taken verbatim from the sh manpage provided with FreeBSD. This looks like you're running a sh command inside csh. Note that the C shell (FreeBSD's default interactive shell) does variable assignments differently: setenv ENV /root/.shrc set FOO = 1 See "man csh" for details. The command you've presented looks like it would belong into a shell script (FreeBSD's default scripting shell)... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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