Timeline for How do I set an environment variable on the command line and have it appear in commands?
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| Nov 29, 2024 at 12:06 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 452 characters in body |
| Feb 4, 2024 at 15:39 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 9 characters in body |
| Feb 2, 2024 at 17:29 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 108 characters in body |
| Feb 2, 2024 at 17:23 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 108 characters in body |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 8:26 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | @Noumenon, because that approach has a side effect (runs in a subshell) that makes it unapplicable in man cases. | |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 8:24 | comment | added | Noumenon | If the simple subshell approach is "Portable (Bourne and POSIX)", why bother with all the more verbose answers for specific shells? | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 15:49 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 46 characters in body |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 8:04 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 1 character in body |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 9:36 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 353 characters in body |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 9:19 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Sep 13, 2017 at 15:12 | comment | added | kronenpj | For my purposes, this is the correct solution. I don't want the variable 'var' to pollute the environment as it does in the accepted answer. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 10:34 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 378 characters in body |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 10:25 | history | edited | user147505 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 21:07 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 15 characters in body |
| Nov 23, 2012 at 11:31 | history | answered | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |