Question re. export environment variable

[David Bath]

> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:38:43 -0500
> From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma@doe.carleton.ca>
> To: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com>
> CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Question re. export environment variable
> 
> Thanks, Bob.  That's the way I expected it to work.
> I was just unsure of whether there was something
> cygwin-specific, as it seems strange that something
> like HOSTNAME is not marked for export at the time
> that it is set.  I'll stick it into ~/.bashrc.
> 
> Fred

I've always used the "set -a" shell builtin command in my .bashrc or 
.kshrc files which then exports all environment variables to all spawned 
bshells.


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