Subject: RE: bash: setenv: command not found
From: Chet Ramey <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:47:02 -0500

> yep, I'm familiar with it:
> 
> foo=bar sets a local shell variable
> foo=  unsets a local shell variable

Not exactly.  It makes `foo' have a null value.  It's not the same thing.

> but where is "unexport"? how do I demote a process environment variable
> without removing it from the local shell?

Bash has `export -n'.  POSIX doesn't.

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    [email-masked]    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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