Re: lowercase environment variable names

> Paul Jarc:

> Is there any reason other than tradition to make variable names
> all-uppercase?  If I write a command that uses an environment variable
> for a parameter that's frequently given by hand, "foo=bar cmd" is
> easier to type than "FOO=bar cmd".

are you serious?  :)  i use lower- or mixed case environment variables
every day, and thay never failed me (on my freebsd system).

clemens