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: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010212164702.AA62809.SM@nike.INS.CWRU.Edu> (raw)
> yep, I'm familiar with it:
>
> foo=bar sets a local shell variable
> foo= unsets a local shell variable
Not exactly. It makes `foo' have a null value. It's not the same thing.
> but where is "unexport"? how do I demote a process environment variable
> without removing it from the local shell?
Bash has `export -n'. POSIX doesn't.
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2001-02-12 8:51 Chet Ramey [this message]
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2001-02-08 15:53 kulack
2001-02-08 9:42 Chet Ramey
2001-02-08 19:43 ` Christopher Abbey
2001-02-09 5:03 ` Earnie Boyd
2001-02-09 10:00 ` Bob McGowan
2001-02-08 7:57 Schaible, Joerg
2001-02-08 4:48 Chet Ramey
2001-02-08 7:42 ` Christopher Abbey
2001-02-07 16:46 Jeff Lu
2001-02-07 16:53 ` Earnie Boyd
2001-02-07 19:27 ` Jeff Lu
2001-02-07 20:46 ` Christopher Abbey
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