Export a Unix variable named file.

Brian K. White brian at aljex.com
Tue Aug 1 15:06:47 PDT 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George" <gclute at comcast.net>
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Subject: Export a Unix variable named file.


>
>
> I must be missing something here.  I'm trying to export a unique file name
> with each invocation.
> Export ascii exp=/tmp/$filename r=\n f=, -x

Export ascii exp=("/tmp/"{getenv("filename")) r=\n f=, -x


>
> Apparently export see' s the $variable as a literal file name...but 
> then -p
> $filename works just fine in other scripts.
>
> Anybody accomplished this in export?
>
> George Clute
>
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