Setting an environment variable 1

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

I did the following -

autonomy @ sbkj2ksrchtxtf03 :: /opt/autonomy/scripts
! % ==> echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

autonomy @ sbkj2ksrchtxtf03 :: /opt/autonomy/scripts
! % ==> export GDFONTPATH=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_14/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf

autonomy @ sbkj2ksrchtxtf03 :: /opt/autonomy/scripts
! % ==>  echo $GDFONTPATH
/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_14/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf

autonomy @ sbkj2ksrchtxtf03 :: /opt/autonomy/scripts
! % ==> set
....
USER=autonomy
_=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_14/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf
....

It's not clear to me why set doesn't show the environment variable.

Regards,
Dan

 

[feherke]

Hi

It's not clear to me why set doesn't show the environment variable.

Are you sure ?

The [tt]set[/tt] shell builtin lists the variables first, then the functions. The entire list on my machine has 11542 lines, while my XTerm's scrollback buffer is set to 1024 lines. So personally I have absolutely no chance to see the variables when running [tt]set[/tt] alone, but [tt]set | grep GDFONTPATH[/tt] clearly show it.


Feherke.

 

[ddrillich]

Great. 'set | grep GDFONTPATH' shows it.

Many thanks,
Dan