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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:07:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: Some small bash issues
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>  - readline not quite OK (Del, Ctl-Left, Ctl-Right, ... don't work)

set TERM=djgpp
should do it.

>  - some issues with envvars:
> 
>       foo=bar echo $foo
> 
>    is supposed to print "bar", but doesn't.

I seem to remember answering this once before. The answer is that this is the 
way Bash works:

Simple Command Expansion
------------------------

   When a simple command is executed, the shell performs the following
expansions, assignments, and redirections, from left to right.

  1. The words that the parser has marked as variable assignments (those
     preceding the command name) and redirections are saved for later
     processing.


In other words, "foo=bar" isn't peformed until after the command is executed.

Mark