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From: jsm@mitekgold1 (Shane McRoberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 19:42:12 GMT
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Chris Bitmead (chrisb@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au) wrote:
: I'll be the first to back up BSD in many areas, but csh would not be one
: of them. The design flaws in csh are well documented. What is it that you
: can do in csh that you can't do in the bourne flavoured shells?

setenv.  This one bugs me.  Is there any way in sh/ksh/bash to set an
exported variable in a single command?  How about listing only exported
or non-exported variables?

thanks.

shane
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