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Old 04-10-2012
Environmental variable

i want to set environmental variables in solaris and redhat.

it should show the current directory and the default shell should be bourne shell. along with it should show the hostname..

like this

Code:
hostname{/home/vipin/data}# ifconfig

Thanks in advanced.Smilie

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