[wplug] Environment Variables

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 14:09:16 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 14:05 -0400, Michael Semcheski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 13:46 -0400, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
>         
>         
>         I'm pretty sure that's how it always works.  You have to add
>         it to
>         your .bashrc to make them permanent.
> 
> For me, if I do:
> export test1="TEST"
> xterm&
> 
> and then in the xterm, run:
> echo $test1
> 
> It prints TEST.
> 
> So, variables from one shell are exported to "child" shells.
> 
> Why that isn't happening for the OP, I'm not sure.  I'm guessing
> there's an option to turn that behavior off.

But he said he was closing the terminal and opening a new one.  That
wouldn't be a child shell.  Carrying to a child shell seems sensible.
If it's a totally new instance, though, it shouldn't carry over.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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