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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting export of a variable isn't working Post 302682907 by zaxxon on Tuesday 7th of August 2012 04:02:55 AM
Old 08-07-2012
Code:
echo "month: [ 04 ]"

is not a variable definition. It is just echoing some text.
When you use read, then you have to give it some input.

Example:
Code:
$> read m
1234
$> echo $m
1234
$> export m
$> env| grep ^m
m=1234
$> ksh
# echo $m
1234

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NAME

       doctools::nroff::man_macros - Default CSS style for NROFF export plugins

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

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       This  package  provides a single command providing access to the definition of the nroff man macro set to use for NROFF markup generated by
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