RE: Re: Unable to set env vars.

> Thanks to all who responeded to my plea's. 

btw funny question:
isn't that dos syntax
 set VAR="VAL"
 echo %VAR%
?
anyway; csh or whatever. I recommend to write in batch-jobs

var1=/my/path
var2="\$var1=${var1}"			# "" interpolates; escape with \
var3='var1 is stored in $var1'	# '' does not interpolate: care the \ only
var4=`date` # store timestamp in var4  # assign output of command to var

echo "$0: starts $var4"
cd ${var1}/subpath

## etc.

means : whenever need to concatinate variables, write ${VAR}
but you can always write ${VAR} instead of $VAR fore readability.

regards,

~andreas 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Joel Massey
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:17 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re:Re: Unable to set env vars.
> 
> 
> Thanks to all who responeded to my plea's.   I got it all figured 
> out now, and ignore my comments about CLASSPATH...   I had a 
> space between the declaration and the "=".
> 
> ---------- Charles Curley <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:53:09PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:32:39PM +0000, Joel Massey wrote:
> > > I can't set env vars. I have tried from a terminal in Gnome, 
> I have tried from the command line, I have tried using my 
> .profile file and .bash-profile file.   Anybody have any 
> ideas???? I really don't want to re-install.  BTW I am using a 
> fresh install of RH 7.1.
> > > (my forehead hurts from pounding my head on the keyboard, 
> make it stop...)
> > I do not know what you tried to do.
> > The following will set an enviroment variable caller $DUMMY
> > DUMMY="joe"
> >  echo $DUMMY
> >  joe
> 
> If you want the variable to be visible to children programs, you must
> also export it. So I would just use
> 
> export DUMMY="joe"
> 
> > 
> > In a bash script it is a little more complicated. You need to export
> > the variable such as:
> > DUMMY="joe"
> > export $DUMMY
> > 
> > - or -
> > export DUMMY="joe"
> > 
> > assuming you are using a bash shell. For example, for csh shell the
> > definition would have a different syntax.
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