single environment variable

SpEkTrE · 10-21-2003, 12:17 PM

What is a single environment variable? I'm having trouble defining it. And how do you disply it?

twm · 10-21-2003, 12:35 PM

>What is a single environment variable?
Just a simple environment variable.

>I'm having trouble defining it.
Depends on your shell, here are two common ones

bash:

Code:

$ export OOGA="This is a simple environment variable"
$ echo $OOGA
This is a simple environment variable

tcsh:

Code:

% setenv OOGA "This is a simple environment variable"
% echo $OOGA
This is a simple environment variable

Pretty much any other common shell will be a derivative of one of those two. Check your friendly neighborhood man pages to see how to do it with your shell.

>And how do you disply it?
What do you know, I answered two questions with one answer.

Look above to see a way to echo a shell variable.

SpEkTrE · 10-21-2003, 12:36 PM

Quote:

What do you know, I answered two questions with one answer. Look above to see a way to echo a shell variable.

lol, thanks!

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twm root Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 232	>What is a single environment variable? Just a simple environment variable. >I'm having trouble defining it. Depends on your shell, here are two common ones bash: Code: $ export OOGA="This is a simple environment variable" $ echo $OOGA This is a simple environment variable tcsh: Code: % setenv OOGA "This is a simple environment variable" % echo $OOGA This is a simple environment variable Pretty much any other common shell will be a derivative of one of those two. Check your friendly neighborhood man pages to see how to do it with your shell. >And how do you disply it? What do you know, I answered two questions with one answer. Look above to see a way to echo a shell variable. __________________ The information given in this message is known to work on FreeBSD 4.8 STABLE. The above statement is false if I was too lazy to test it. Please take note that I am not a technical writer, nor do I care to become one. If someone finds a mistake, gleaming error or typo, do me a favor...bite me. Don't assume that I'm ever entirely serious or entirely joking.
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