processing passwords?

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>

> | KENMAGIC=1; export KENMAGIC
> 
> Why the superflous, unnecessary semi-colon?

export means "make the named variable visible to child processes; 
doing an assignment in front of a command makes it visible to *that*
processes, but *not* in the environment of the shell running that 
process; I've never been clear on the semantics of the first.  So since
I *always* want it set in the current process as well as its children,
I do the assignment and the export as separate commands.

Cheers,
-- jra
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