On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <<a href="mailto:macoafi@gmail.com">macoafi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 13:46 -0400, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:<br><br></div></div>I'm pretty sure that's how it always works. You have to add it to<br>
your .bashrc to make them permanent.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>For me, if I do:<br>export test1="TEST"<br>xterm&<br><br>and then in the xterm, run:<br>echo $test1<br><br>It prints TEST.<br><br>So, variables from one shell are exported to "child" shells.<br>
<br>Why that isn't happening for the OP, I'm not sure. I'm guessing there's an option to turn that behavior off.<br>