Jeff Green wrote: > > % XXX="hello" /bin/echo $XXX When the shell see's this line, it expands $XXX itself first. It is not /bin/echo doing the expansion.
Note that if you do the following, it will print hello. XXX="hello" printenv XXX Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
