On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Mike Erdely <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:11:23PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: >> This confused me for SO LONG. The trick is to "source" the file >> instead of running it as so: >> . ./script >> or >> source ./script >> >> You'd think "EXPORT" exports the value to the entire OS, but no, it >> only exports it beyond the that command line. It sort of makes sense >> in the context that can do this to pass variables to programs: >> $ VAR=VAL ./script >> >> Unix is crazy. > > Actually, read my explanation. It will make sense to you then.
It makes sense in a logical-reductionist way, if you focus on the actions and not the words; it's just kind of counter intuitive :) -Nick _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
