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Old 04-01-2010, 07:17 AM   #1
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Unhappy bash shell

Hi all

I created a environment variable as follow....
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export LFS=/mnt/lfs
Why does...
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echo $LFS
display the value of LFS variable in the non login shell in which this file is not read ????
 
Old 04-01-2010, 07:33 AM   #2
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Umm ... I am a little unclear on what your actual questions is here?

Are you saying you ran the two commands in your post one after the other?
 
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If you mean the export is in /etc/profile then ... the non-login interactive shells are descendants of the login shell started when you logged in (or were auto-logged in) and thus inherit the envars set by the login shell. pstree should so show the descendancy.
 
  


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