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[ILUG] .profile not setting env vars

[ILUG] .profile not setting env vars

Colm MacCarthaigh colmmacc at redbrick.dcu.ie
Wed Nov 28 17:21:37 GMT 2001


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 05:18:06PM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> why the #! at the start of a .profile... I would've thought this was
> unnecessary..

especially when you consider how mad it would be to have bash live
at /usr/bash

anyway, 

	export FOO=bar

works fine for me. As does:

	FOO=bar; export FOO

as does every other way I can think of doing it. I can't reproduce the
problem.

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colmmacc at redbrick.dcu.ie
			   




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