export

Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 June 2009 11:45

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1. Name

export - set an environment variable

2. Synopsis

export [-fn] [-p] [name[=value]] 

3. Examples

Most common use of export is to export user's PATH environmental variable. In this example we add /linux/scripts directory to our PATH environmental variable:

PATH=$PATH:/linux/scripts
export PATH 

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