Re: setenv & unsetenv

[Neil Hoggarth]

In article <9135k3$k55$1@cscnews.csc.calpoly.edu>,
Christopher Michael Collins ( <cmcollin@monet.artisan.calpoly.edu> wrote:

> I was given a script to set environment variable to 
> then run an application.  It contains the c-shell
> variable setenv and unsetenv.
> 
> Are there bash equivalents?

VARIABLE = value
export VARIABLE

or

export VARIABLE = value

(the former syntax should work with all similar shells, so if your
script needs to be portable to /bin/sh on a range of systems you
should stick with that - if the script can be Bash specific then you
can use the latter shortcut).

Regards,
-- 
Neil Hoggarth                                 Departmental Computer Officer
<neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of Physiology
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                  University of Oxford, UK