From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:02:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Replace instances of export VAR=VAL with VAR=VAL; export VAR
Message-ID: <20071128230203.GA13964@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <85sl2q6kyu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:53:13PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:

> dak@lola:~$ ash
> $ export JUNK=woozle
> $ sh -c 'echo $JUNK'
> woozle
> $ exit
> dak@lola:~$ dash
> $ export JUNK=woozle
> $ sh -c 'echo $JUNK'
> woozle
> $ exit
> 
> What problem are we talking about exactly, and with what shell?

$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p17-jc1
$ /bin/sh
$ FOO='with spaces'
$ echo $FOO
with spaces
$ OK=$FOO; export OK
$ sh -c 'echo $OK'
with spaces
$ export BAD=$FOO
$ sh -c 'echo $BAD'
with
$ echo $BAD
with

-Peff