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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: In /bin/sh: BLA=66 -->;<-- export BLA
Message-ID: <11243@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Oct 89 01:20:19 GMT
References: <1532@cbnewse.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1532@cbnewse.ATT.COM> danj1@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Dan Jacobson) writes:
>In Bourne (Korn too) shell, I've seen the cool guys write:
>	BLA=66 export BLA
>Is this guaranteed :-) to always have the same effect as:
>	BLA=66; export BLA

Originally Korn's shell didn't do this compatibly with the Bourne shell,
but upon receiving complaints he changed it to do so.  Therefore I would
say that it is likely to continue to work this way.