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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