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Power Doubt on ENV variable

Question 1: If I set ENV=$HOME/myenvprofile.ksh, will my script get executed when ever I login to my with KSH. My doubt is we used to put this in .profile of our home directory. SO when ever I login will it executed?

QUestion 2: If I set ENV=`echo "hi"` or 'echo "hi" ', what would be the output. Hi will be printed or echo hi will be printed or since echo is buil in cmd of shell it wll put error on considering hi as a command. Please do help.

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Ramkrix
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ENV(3)							     Library Functions Manual							    ENV(3)

NAME
env - environment variables SYNOPSIS
bind #e /env /env/var1 /env/var2 ... DESCRIPTION
The env device serves a one-level directory containing files with arbitrary names and contents. The intention is that the file name is the name of an environment variable (see rc(1)), and the content is the variable's current value. When a fork(2) system call creates a new process, both the parent and the child continue to see exactly the same files in the env device: changes made in either process can be noticed by the other. In contrast, an rfork system call with the RFENVG bit set (see fork(2)) causes a split: initially both process groups see the same environment files, but any changes made in one process group cannot be noticed by the other. An rfork with RFCENVG splits and then clears the environment. SEE ALSO
rc(1), fork(2) SOURCE
/sys/src/9/port/devenv.c BUGS
A write starting at an offset after the current extent of a file yields an error instead of zero filling. ENV(3)