Set an environment variable

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-10-21, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
>> My point: the OP wanted to know how to export an environment
>> variable to a child process.  Either of the lines of code above
>> will do that, so what's with all the shellular shenanigans?
>
> Actually, the OP didn't say he wanted to export a variable to a child
> process. He said he wanted to know how to do the equivalent of "export
> SYMBOL=value", which got intreprted as "setting a variable in the
> parent shell."

The only think you can export an environment variable to is a
child process, so I thought it obvious that was what he was
doing with the "export" command example.

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