From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chet Ramey <chet@nike.INS.CWRU.Edu>
To: cabbey@bresnanlink.net
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, chet@po.cwru.edu
Subject: RE: bash: setenv: command not found
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 09:42:00 -0000
Message-id: <1010208173749.AA50606.SM@nike.INS.CWRU.Edu>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00453.html

> call me crazy but I like orthogonality, and logically named
> commands.

You like two completely different ways of doing assignments?

First, export foo=bar is just convenient shorthand for

foo=bar
export foo

There is only one way to do assignment statements in sh: var=value.
All variable assignments are local, with the single exception of
variable assignments preceding a command.  `export' is the only way
to make a variable part of the environment.

sh-style shells are much more consistent.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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