With standard shell or compatible shell (/etc/passwd has /bin/sh or /bin/ksh or /bin/bash or /bin/zsh) it uses
for a shell-internal variable. And
to promote it to environment. Environment is inherited by the commands that the shell invokes.
The standard shell and compatibles process such commands in $HOME/.profileat a login.
If the shell in /etc/passwd is /bin/csh or /bin/tcsh then the syntax is different:
for shell-internal, and
for environment. There is some confusion if you do both with the same variable. By convention you should do
I.e. lowercase of internal variables and uppercase for environment variables.
The csh and tcsh process such commands in $HOME/.loginat a login.
Usually the SHELL environment variable is set from the one in /etc/passwd:
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Well first of all I am a real Unix newbie. I am taking a course on it in University. I kind of understand set and setenv but, I think it si something that I should really understand. So I thought that I would try a forum out and see how good you guys really are.
The question:
Execute the... (1 Reply)
I never undestood exactly what's the difference between the SET and SETENV commands.
One sets variables visible to all users and the other (SETENV) only to the specific user environment ?
Thanks in advance,
BraZil - thE heLL iS HEre :mad: !!! (2 Replies)
I thought that set and setenv was easy enough to understand until I started experimenting.
I noticed the same problem in a previous thread, so I will use it as an example.
set command gave the following output:
argv ()
cwd /homes/e/ee325328/assignment.2
home /homes/e/ee325328
path ( a... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I use "export DISPLAY=same_host:0.0" to set my export DISPLAY and it is working fine for me..
Problem here is I have developed a script for which i should run export DISPLAY prior to running my script....
so my script should check whether export DISPLAY is set or not.. if... (6 Replies)
Does know where I can find what ALL of the set options do in vi? I can't find it anywhere in vi's man pages or help files. I know about :set all but a lot of the options I have no clue what they do. (3 Replies)
Hi
I'm trying to understand variable scopes in solaris10.
It is said that to display env variables we use 3 commands :
- env
- set
- export
What is the difference between them ?
thx for help.
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asadmin-export
asadmin-export(1AS) User Commands asadmin-export(1AS)NAME
asadmin-export, export - marks a variable name for automatic export to the environment of subsequent commands in multimode
SYNOPSIS
export [ name=value [ name=value]*]
Marks a variable name for automatic export to the environment of subsequent commands. All subsequent commands use the variable name values
as specified; unless you unset them or exit multimode. If only the variable name is specified, the current value of that variable name is
displayed. If the export command is used without any arguments, a list of all the exported variables and their values is displayed.
Exported shell environment variables set prior to invoking the asadmin utility are imported automatically and set as exported variables
within asadmin. Unexported environment variables cannot be read by the asadmin utility.
OPERANDS
name=value variable name and value for automatic export to the environment to be used by subsequent commands.
Example 1: Using export to list the environment variables
asadmin> export AS_ADMIN_HOST=bluestar AS_ADMIN_PORT=8000 AS_ADMIN_USER=admin AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
asadmin> export AS_ADMIN_PREFIX=server1.jms-service
asadmin> export //to list the environment variables that are set
AS_ADMIN_HOST=bluestar
AS_ADMIN_PORT=8000
AS_ADMIN_USER=admin
AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=********
AS_ADMIN_PREFIX=server1.jms-service
Where: the export command lists the environment variables that are set. In this case, the environment variables have been set to: the host
is bluestar, the port is 8000, the administrator user is admin with an associated password, and the prefix is server1.jms-service.
EXIT STATUS
0 command executed successfully
1 error in executing the command
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