From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: export
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:36:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54753CB9.4090903@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54752574.5090205@eastlink.ca>
On 11/25/2014 07:57 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> When I export a variable it is only available in subsequent shells in
> the same xterm. Can I make it export globally? Or is the issue
> somehow related to the xterm itself?
The environment is a one way copy from parent process to child, you
can't propagate it the other direction through normal means.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-26 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-26 0:57 export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26 2:36 ` Eric Cook [this message]
2014-11-26 2:58 ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26 4:32 ` export Bart Schaefer
2014-11-26 4:54 ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26 5:16 ` export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26 5:38 ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26 5:07 ` export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26 5:43 ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26 5:54 ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26 17:43 ` export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26 18:26 ` export Павлов Николай Александрович
2014-11-26 18:45 ` export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26 5:50 ` export Павлов Николай Александрович
2014-11-26 6:21 ` export Kurtis Rader
[not found] ` <CABx2=D_zLTkdFsV+eT-VrwwaJQYr=1JeZF0eNqH44saPDYMD7Q__49907.9755544246$1416977797$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-26 7:18 ` export Stephane Chazelas
2014-11-26 13:37 ` export Clint Hepner
2014-11-26 9:27 ` export Peter Stephenson
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