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RE: bash: setenv: command not found
- To: cabbey at bresnanlink dot net
- Subject: RE: bash: setenv: command not found
- From: Chet Ramey <chet at nike dot INS dot CWRU dot Edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:47:02 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, chet at po dot cwru dot edu
- Read-Receipt-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
- Reply-To: chet at po dot CWRU dot Edu
> 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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