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Re: Set environment variables in Bourne shell (sh)

Duncan Anderson — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:22:54 -0000

As far as I know, the commands must be on separate lines in the Bourne shell. I n the Korn shell it is possible to use one line thus:

EDITOR=vi export EDITOR

If I am not mistaken this also works in Bash.

maestromani — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:25:59 -0000

Can we do export and set in one command in bash ?

Name — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:39:34 -0000

Not right exactly.
SH = Bourne Shell
Bash = Bourne Again Shell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

CoalKoRn — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:35:11 -0000

Bourne shell ~= bash, not sh...

Does function also:export MANPATH=${MANPATH}:/new/path

To view a specific variable:printenv PATH

To view all environment variables:env

CoalKoRn