On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:27:39AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > >but it doesn't say which files are effected by the command. is it > >stored somewhere? > No files are affected by the command. All it does is mark a shell > variable as being an environment variable that is passed on to any > subsequent commands you execute *from that shell*. Watch this: $ echo $VARIABLE $ VARIABLE=something $ echo $VARIABLE something $ bash # <-- starting another shell, which is just another program $ echo $VARIABLE $ exit # back to the main shell exit $ echo $VARIABLE something $ export VARIABLE $ bash # <-- a new subshell again $ echo $VARIABLE something -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 74 degrees Fahrenheit.
