On 10/17/14, 11:34 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 3) Everything else. These are ignored. >
Not quite. Bash saves them and adds them to the environment it passes to the external commands it invokes. Bash is transparent with respect to environment variables it doesn't handle. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/