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super_hill 12-03-2008 07:21 PM
How to set linux environment variable like abc.abc (With DOT in the string)
 
I want to set a special format environment variable abc.abc.

I tried the command: export abc.abc=test; But the prompt output shows: bash: Exprot: 'abc.abc=test' : not avalid identifier.

Anyone has the solution? Thanks in advance.

garyg007 12-03-2008 07:37 PM
Variable name must begin with an Alphanumeric character or underscore character (_), followed by one or more Alphanumeric characters. That means that the variable name cannot contain any special characters other than underscore.

give the variable a name; then assign a value to it.
For example:
Code:
gary@abitbox:~$ export abc=abc.def
gary@abitbox:~$ echo $abc
abc.def
gary@abitbox:~$

HTH

Gary


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