export command not found?
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat Feb 10 20:20:21 UTC 2007
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Roger Olofsson wrote:
>> Dear Mailing List,
>>
>> 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD just made world.
>>
>> # export VARIABLE value
>> export: Command not found.
>>
>>
>> What happened to export?
>>
>> Grateful for any answer!
>
> /bin/sh is not bash on FreeBSD. IF you're using /bin/sh, then you
> need to assign and export values as separate operations:
>
> FOO=bar
> export FOO
>
> Also, root's shell is not /bin/sh or anything of that ilk by default.
> It is /bin/csh aka /bin/tcsh, and for that the syntax is:
>
> setenv FOO bar
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
Sorry, but that's incorrect. One line exports do work in either bash or sh:
[gcooper at sprsd ~]$ export FOO=bar; echo $FOO
bar
[gcooper at sprsd ~]$ sh
$ export FOO=bar; echo $FOO
bar
He's probably using (t)csh.
-Garrett
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