"env" or "export env"? OK

[D. Adam Karim]

$(export env Foo=) is the same as using $(export Foo=) so save yourself
from the extra typing! Also to note, closing the shell is not necessary
to remove the variable from your shell, just use $(unset Foo) and you're
good to go.

Glad that you're now able to do a build. Good luck on your BSD hacking
;)

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 01:50:08PM -0600, macintoshzoom wrote:
> OK, so the proper command is the original one, no matter if ksh is shell or 
> not.
> Thanks Nick and Adam.
>
> I got confused by the fact that:
>
> $ env FOO=
> _=/usr/bin/env
> bla bla
> FOO=
> $
>
> but then if I do
>
> $ env |grep FOO
> no trace of FOO
> $
>
> So I understand that env sets the environment temporary ONLY for the 
> command line.
>
> but when doing
>
> $ export env FOO=
> $ env |grep FOO
> FOO=
> $
>
> the temporary env FOO= stays in successive new commands till I close the 
> konsole, a feature that I like and use very usually.
>
> Mac
>
> Nick Guenther wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:54 PM, macintoshzoom
>> <macintoshzoom at lavabit.com> wrote:
>>> I have a dude in this command, at least for people running this from KDE
>>> konsole or konqueror:
>>>
>>> At http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html ,
>>> section 5.3.5 - Building the userland :
>>> ...
>>> Make sure all the appropriate directories are created.
>>> # cd /usr/src/etc && env DESTDIR=/ make distrib-dirs
>>> ...
>>>
>>> But it seems to me that the proper command for this (from KDE) should be:
>>>
>>> # cd /usr/src/etc && export env DESTDIR=/ make distrib-dirs
>>>
>>>
>>> as "export env", not "env" is the proper command for KDE consoles,
>>> e.g. when
>>> $ echo $SHELL
>>> /bin/ksh
>>> $
>>>
>>> Can any one give me some light about this?
>>>
>>
>> 'env' is a command that takes a list of environment variables to
>> temporarily define and then runs the command that you give it in that
>> new environment.
>> 'export' is a command that takes a list of strings, treats them as
>> environment variables, and pushes those variables out to the world
>> outside of your current shell (that's why you have to use export in
>> .profile, because .profile gets run in its own subshell, just like
>> every script).
>>
>> "export env DESTDIR=/ make distrib-dirs" doesn't mean anything. Well,
>> rather, it does not mean what you think it does. Try this:
>> $ export env DESTDIR=/ make distrib-dirs
>> $ set #shows the current environment variables
>>
>> Anyway, why would using KDE have any impact on how commands in a shell work?
>>
>> I hope that helps clear up your understanding?
>> -Nick
>>

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                                           D. Adam Karim
                                         adam at akarsoft.com

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