Export Problem
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Sat Aug 28 23:45:15 UTC 2004
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, David Cary Hart wrote:
> Perhaps a tad OT. From the command line, if I do "export FOO='bar'" and
> then do export -p, the result is as expected.
>
> However, if I do the same thing in a script:
> #!/bin/bash
> export FOO="bar"
>
> . . . it does not create the variable. export -p and it's not there.
>
> Where am I going wrong? What don't I get?
I don't think you need the ' or the " around the value.
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