On Friday, May 20th 2005 at 10:52 +0100, quoth THUFIR HAWAT:
=>from the man file:
=>
=> export [-fn] [name[=word]] ...
This might be more than you want to know, but it seems like you don't have
a grasp of what your environmnet is to begin with.
Every programming language has the ability to access its environment and
to set or unset its variables. The environment is copied to all child
processes through crt0.o which is linked into every executable.
In bash
export foo=bar
echo $foo
in perl
$ENV{foo}='bar';
print $ENV{foo};
In C
#include <stdlib.h>
setenv ( "foo", "bar", 1 );
printf ( "foo = %s\n", getenv ( "foo" ) );
Also, a really great place to start is to read
man 5 environ
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