Its just bash topology... If your setting a variable and calling a command after it, or doing anything on one line with another expression after it you need to end the expression before starting another one, which is done with the semi-colon ';'.
On the first one: $ AAAA=aaa echo $AAAA AAAA now looks like "aaa echo " unless AAAA already exists, and if so would contain the variable contents after the "echo " bit... Elfyn ----- Original Message ----- From: Huang. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 7:31 AM Subject: About ENV? > Why env in cygwin work like these: > > $ AAAA=aaa echo $AAAA > > > $ AAAA=aaa; echo $AAAA > aaa > > $ echo $AAAA > aaa > > > Maybe it not correct? > > Thanks. > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
