change environment variable

[Odhiambo Washington]

Hi all,

when I do echo $COLUMNS, I see the value 131.
Now this variable is not exported at all from my shell and I need to
change it to 72.

Does anyone have clues on
1. How to change it
2. Any gotchas that I may face.


Thanks


-Wash

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