Export a Unix variable named File.
Kenneth Brody
kenbrody at spamcop.net
Tue Aug 1 12:36:02 PDT 2006
Quoting George (Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:22:00 -0700):
> I must be missing something here. I'm trying to export a new file name
> with each export run.
>
> Export ascii exp=/tmp/$file r=\n f=, -x
>
> Apparently export takes the $variable as a literal, while -p $file works
> just great.
"-p $file" on the command line works because it's the command line and
the shell expands "$file" before filePro ever sees it.
You need:
export ascii exp=("/tmp/" { getenv("file")) r=\n f=, -x
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