From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 9: 2:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCCF37BE32 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12c8ml-0001Pc-00; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:29:03 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12c8ml-000FU7-00; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:29:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:29:03 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ben Williams Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Re[2]: help! Message-ID: <20000403162903.D85754@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <38E8070F.10B8BAD7@raccoon.com> <1762.000403@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <1762.000403@home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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