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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:08:55 -0700
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According to Dixon, Scott on 1/14/2008 4:38 PM:
| I'm using cygwin on XP Pro and was having no issues untill I updated
some dev pacakages the other day. Now none of my shell scripts are able to
SET environment variables for a session. I can "export foo=something" but
my scripts can't "SET foo something". Any -deas? Thanks

[http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL]

'SET' is not bash syntax, but cmd.exe (or perhaps you were thinking of
'set' in tcsh).  You were correct in using 'export' syntax for a bash script.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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