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Re: Variable export, recursion, and environment
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Paul D. Smith |
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Re: Variable export, recursion, and environment |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:00:39 -0400 |
%% Sankaranarayanan K V <address@hidden> writes:
skv> - bash behaves just as you have said --
skv> it passes on changes to the child even if the variable is not
skv> exported specifically in the parent.
ksh behaves this way too.
skv> - sh (the Bourne shell) does NOT pass the changes to the child if the
skv> variable is not exported.
skv> Now, isn't that strange? What does POSIX say?
POSIX agrees with bash and ksh.
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