On Fri, 20 May 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > from the man file: > > export [-fn] [name[=word]] ... > export -p > The supplied names are marked for automatic export to > the environment of > subsequently executed commands. If the -f option > is given, the names > refer to functions. If no names are given, or if the -p > option is sup- > plied, a list of all names that are exported in this > shell is printed. > The -n option causes the export property to be removed > from each name. If > a variable name is followed by =word, the value of the > variable is set to > word. export returns an exit status of 0 unless an > invalid option is > encountered, one of the names is not a valid shell > variable name, or -f is > supplied with a name that is not a function. > > but it doesn't say which files are effected by the command. is it > stored somewhere? inside the shell. rday
