what does export do?
THUFIR HAWAT
hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Fri May 20 09:52:30 UTC 2005
from the man file:
export [-fn] [name[=word]] ...
export -p
The supplied names are marked for automatic export to
the environment of
subsequently executed commands. If the -f option
is given, the names
refer to functions. If no names are given, or if the -p
option is sup-
plied, a list of all names that are exported in this
shell is printed.
The -n option causes the export property to be removed
from each name. If
a variable name is followed by =word, the value of the
variable is set to
word. export returns an exit status of 0 unless an
invalid option is
encountered, one of the names is not a valid shell
variable name, or -f is
supplied with a name that is not a function.
but it doesn't say which files are effected by the command. is it
stored somewhere?
thanks,
Thufir
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