Doug Phillips wrote: >> It also works the other way around, at least on the non-empty >> set of systems that contains my workstation. export simply >> marks the variable name for automatic export to the >> environment of subsequent commands. The value at that time >> doesn't matter. What matters is the value that the name has >> at the time the command is run: [snip] > Just tried on a FreeBSD 6.1 development box with stock /bin/sh and it > works there too...
As far as I know, it has been like this since the introduction of the Bourne shell in (according to a web search) 1979. Charles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
