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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:37:49 -0500
From: Chet Ramey <chet AT nike DOT INS DOT CWRU DOT Edu>
To: cabbey AT bresnanlink DOT net
Subject: RE: bash: setenv: command not found
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, chet AT po DOT cwru DOT edu
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X-In-Reply-To:  Message from cabbey AT bresnanlink DOT net of Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:39:25 -0600 (CST) (id <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 21 DOT 0102080923570 DOT 23798-100000 AT tweedle DOT cabbey DOT net>)

> call me crazy but I like orthogonality, and logically named
> commands.

You like two completely different ways of doing assignments?

First, export foo=bar is just convenient shorthand for

foo=bar
export foo

There is only one way to do assignment statements in sh: var=value.
All variable assignments are local, with the single exception of
variable assignments preceding a command.  `export' is the only way
to make a variable part of the environment.

sh-style shells are much more consistent.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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