RE: Life, The Universe, and env variables

 That won't work across consoles. That will set the variable for the
duration of one console session. To make the variable visable every
where, put it in /etc/profile. For just one user, use the user's
profile. In bash, it is ~user/.bash_profile.

chuck

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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:03 PM
To: Enkidu
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Subject: Re: Life, The Universe, and env variables

I believe it was something like...
export var=3Dvalue

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