Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:29:03 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Re[2]: help! Message-ID: <20000403162903.D85754@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1762.000403@home.com> References: <38E8070F.10B8BAD7@raccoon.com> <1762.000403@home.com>
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Ben Williams wrote: > Just out of curiosity why are all the examples I ever see re > setting environment variables in bash listed as: > > VARNAME=value; export VARNAME > > instead of: > > export VARNAME=value > ? export VARNAME=value is supposedly not guaranteed to work in all Bourne-type shells. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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