[CLUE-Tech] shell programming

[Dave Price]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:18:35PM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
> 
> I did not mean to imply that what you were suggesting wouldn't work, nor 
> that it was a "bad idea."  It will work, and it isn't bad, of course.  I 
> was merely trying to be informative in that "export" isn't strictly needed 
> unless a child process needs to pick up the value of the variable being 
> set.  I was simply explaining what "export" actually does, since it wasn't 
> clear from my reading of your message that that was understood.  Using it 
> where it isn't required doesn't hurt anything, of course.
> 
Of course - thanks for the input on the functionality of export.

aloha,
dave