Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My point: the OP wanted to know how to export an environment
> variable to a child process.  Either of the lines of code above
> will do that, so what's with all the shellular shenanigans?

Actually, the OP didn't say he wanted to export a variable to a child
process. He said he wanted to know how to do the equivalent of "export
SYMBOL=value", which got intreprted as "setting a variable in the
parent shell."

       <mike
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