RE: export question

2007-01-08 Thread Tony Heal
] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:02 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: export question Tony Heal wrote: > Here is the problem. What you suggest will place the variable in the > environment, but that is what export is supposed to do. > >>From the man for bash > export

Re: export question

2007-01-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
he export command is executed within bash1. when bash1 is exited at some point, then $JAVA will dies with it. hth A > > Tony > > > > -Original Message- > From: Mike McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:22 PM > To: debian-use

Re: export question

2007-01-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Tony Heal wrote: Here is the problem. What you suggest will place the variable in the environment, but that is what export is supposed to do. From the man for bash export [-fn] [name[=word]] ... export -p The supplied names are marked for automatic export to the environment of subsequently

Re: export question

2007-01-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:06:02PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > Here is the problem. What you suggest will place the variable in the > environment, but that is what export is supposed to do. > > >From the man for bash > export [-fn] [name[=word]] ... > export -p > The supplied names are marked fo

RE: export question

2007-01-06 Thread Tony Heal
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: export question Tony Heal wrote: > Maybe I am looking for something I should not see, but if 'export' places a > variable in the environment shouldn't I be able to see it when using the > 'set' command. I wrote this small scr

Re: export question

2007-01-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Tony Heal wrote: Maybe I am looking for something I should not see, but if 'export' places a variable in the environment shouldn't I be able to see it when using the 'set' command. I wrote this small script to test this and nothing shows in set. I know I am missing something. If I had the same li