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From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: export vars from cshell script?
Message-ID: <844@ccssrv.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 02:56:54 GMT
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In article <1815@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> heidi@kiwi.bcm.tmc.edu (Heidi Johnson)
writes:

>Is there an equivalent in the Cshell to the Bourne shell's export
>facility?  We have would like to define new environment variables in a
>shell, and have them be known to subsequent processes.

There is not an exact equivalent, but similar functionality is available.
In Bourne shell, all variables are set with "=" and those which are to be
placed in the environment are "export"ed.  In C shell, variables created
with "setenv" are placed in the environment while those created with "set"
are private.