On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this
>
>
> setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message
> setenv: Syntax Error.
Of course. The sh shell doesn't have setenv.
> man setenv is useless.
The manual entry of setenv can be found in "man csh". :-)
> The question is how do I set a environment variable using the default
> freebsd shell?
You mean: FreeBSD's default scripting shell. :-)
$ PKGDIR="/usr/packages"
$ export PKGDIR
or
$ export PKGDIR="/usr/packages"
Refer to "man sh" for details. The setenv command is a built-in for
the C Shell.
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