gzip tries to unpack/pack 1st the filename of $GZIP

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, October 14, 2010 a las 10:39:13AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert escribió:

> Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was facing a problem in some Makefile/shell-scripting and finally I
> > could nail it down:
> >
> > when you set the environment variable GZIP to something, for example to
> > let it point to gzip itself, it tries 1st to unpack this file:
> >
	...

This was my fault. I overlooked it in the man page. SOrry;

> You need to fix the syntax on your 'export' lines.
> Adding a semicolon before the "export" keyword (or
> moving it to the next line) is the smallest change 
> to do this.

Why?

$ FIX=foo export FIX
$ env | fgrep FIX
FIX=foo

	matthias

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