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Setting $COLUMN permanently

From:	Jordan Borgner
Subject:	Setting $COLUMN permanently
Date:	Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:16:56 +0100
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I'd like to set $COLUMNS to 80 permanently. I added "export COLUMNS=80"to my bashrc and it is set when I start bash, but gets resetted t o it'sformer default value after invoking the man-pager, emacs, or less forexample. There was no other occurence of "COLUMNS" grepping for it from/. Can one explain this behavior to me?



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