Unable to set env vars. 2003-03-17 - By Charles Curley
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:53:09PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:32:39PM +0000, Joel Massey wrote:
> > I can't set env vars. I have tried from a terminal in Gnome, I have tried
from the command line, I have tried using my .profile file and .bash-profile
file. Anybody have any ideas???? I really don't want to re-install. BTW I am
using a fresh install of RH 7.1.
> > (my forehead hurts from pounding my head on the keyboard, make it stop...)
> I do not know what you tried to do.
> The following will set an enviroment variable caller $DUMMY
> DUMMY="joe"
> echo $DUMMY
> joe
If you want the variable to be visible to children programs, you must
also export it. So I would just use
export DUMMY="joe"
>
> In a bash script it is a little more complicated. You need to export
> the variable such as:
> DUMMY="joe"
> export $DUMMY
>
> - or -
> export DUMMY="joe"
>
> assuming you are using a bash shell. For example, for csh shell the
> definition would have a different syntax.
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