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Operating Systems HP-UX Set, setenv or export? Confused between three options Post 302996368 by MadeInGermany on Tuesday 25th of April 2017 03:42:51 AM
Old 04-25-2017
A correction: ksh does not take .kshrc. It takes an environment variable ENV.
You can of course put the following into .profile
Code:
#ksh takes this startup file:
ENV=$HOME/.kshrc; export ENV

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ENV(1)								   User Commands							    ENV(1)

NAME
env - run a program in a modified environment SYNOPSIS
env [OPTION]... [-] [NAME=VALUE]... [COMMAND [ARG]...] DESCRIPTION
Set each NAME to VALUE in the environment and run COMMAND. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -i, --ignore-environment start with an empty environment -0, --null end each output line with 0 byte rather than newline -u, --unset=NAME remove variable from the environment --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit A mere - implies -i. If no COMMAND, print the resulting environment. GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report env translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by Richard Mlynarik and David MacKenzie. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for env is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and env programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'env invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 ENV(1)
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