Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:48:57 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip tries to unpack/pack 1st the filename of $GZIP Message-ID: <20101014144857.GA5236@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <44bp6walf2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20101014083659.GA3150@current.Sisis.de> <44bp6walf2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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El día Thursday, October 14, 2010 a las 10:39:13AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert escribió: > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > I was facing a problem in some Makefile/shell-scripting and finally I > > could nail it down: > > > > when you set the environment variable GZIP to something, for example to > > let it point to gzip itself, it tries 1st to unpack this file: > > ... This was my fault. I overlooked it in the man page. SOrry; > You need to fix the syntax on your 'export' lines. > Adding a semicolon before the "export" keyword (or > moving it to the next line) is the smallest change > to do this. Why? $ FIX=foo export FIX $ env | fgrep FIX FIX=foo matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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