Thread: single environment variable

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    single environment variable

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