18 Oct
2004
18 Oct
'04
23:19
* Paul W. Abrahams
By the way, I did a little experiment with EDITOR and discovered that it's effective as an environment variable only if it's exported.
this is how *evnironment* var's work. They are only seen withing the *environment*, shell hierarchy, where they have been presented. Export makes them available "to the environment of subsequently executed commands". I suggest a copy of the abs-guide.pdf should be on everyone's desk/computer. Advanced Bash Scripting Guide. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos