On Jun 20 09:53, Tom Rodman wrote: > On Wed 6/20/12 8:07 MDT Eric Blake wrote: > > On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote: > > > > > $ echo $SHELL > > > /bin/bash > > > $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL' # does this prove SHELL is exported? > > > SHELL: /bin/bash > > > > No. And in fact, bash does not export SHELL by default, but defaults to > > defining SHELL as a shell-local variable. You have to explicitly export > > it yourself if you want child processes to see it. > > OK. Thanks, good to know that. > > -- > Still, not sure why I have to export the SHELL var to GNU screen > now since in the past several years I have not done this. > Recently I stopped using 'putty -ssh localhost' for my terminal, > and I'm using 'rxvt' instead, ...
Brr. Why don't you use mintty instead? rxvt is old, unmaintained, and it doesn't support UTF-8. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
