bash: setenv: command not found

[Chet Ramey]

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

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