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From: bet@ORION.MC.DUKE.EDU (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Bash 1.01 "FOO=bar export FOO" doesn't
Message-ID: <8907190831.AA10564@orion>
Date: 19 Jul 89 08:31:50 GMT
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SunOS 3.5, gcc 1.34 -traditional -g

Typescript follows:

Script started on Wed Jul 19 04:31:13 1989
bent[1] printenv FOO
bent[2] FOO=bar export FOO
bent[3] printenv FOO
bent[4] sh
bent[\#] printenv FOO
bent[\#] FOO=bar export FOO
bent[\#] printenv FOO
bar
bent[\#] bent[5]
script done on Wed Jul 19 04:31:47 1989

This is a fairly common Bourne shell programming idiom.

-Bennett
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu