setenv - bash

allelopath · 04-16-2005, 04:28 PM

i have some instructions that say to use setenv thusly:
setenv PORT_RANGE 20000,210000
which is supposed to set PORT_RANGE to a range of values.

I am using bash so I am using export instead of setenv, but:
export PORT_RANGE=20000,21000
doesn't seem to work.

How can I do this?

acid_kewpie · 04-16-2005, 04:47 PM

what's not to work? why do you think it's failing? can you read it back with "echo $PORT_RANGE"?

allelopath · 04-16-2005, 06:01 PM

well i did a
#printenv $PORT_RANGE
and it returned nothing, but you suggested
#echo $PORT_RANGE
it returns
10010,10190
but then again if i arbitrarily replace the comma with something else:
export PORT_RANGE2=10010!10190
#echo $PORT_RANGE2
it returns
10010!10190

is this a "string" value?

allelopath · 04-16-2005, 06:03 PM

oic, my mistake with the printenv is that i shouldn't use the $

acid_kewpie · 04-17-2005, 05:38 AM

ok... so it's all working right after all then?