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Question re. export environment variable
- From: Fred Ma <fma at doe dot carleton dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:19:17 -0500
- Subject: Question re. export environment variable
- Newsgroups: gnu.bash, comp.unix.shell, comp.unix.questions
Hello,
I'm using cygwin bash 2.05b-8 (it's actually gnu).
I thought that $HOSTNAME was an environment
variable. When I run gnu make (I'm pretty
sure this is not a make problem), $(HOSTNAME)
is empty. It gets fixed if I do "export HOSTNAME"
before running make.
Is there a way to check if the export command
has been applied to $HOSTNAME? Does the
actual transcription of $HOSTNAME's value to
the environment happen only once, when
"export" is applied, or is there a continual
monitoring an mirroring of changes to $HOSTNAME
forever after applying "export"?
Fred
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