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Re: Ideal place to set environment variables

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Ideal place to set environment variables
Date	2018-04-09 14:40 +0200
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 11:47:19AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
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Really? :-(

> </pre>
>     </blockquote>
>     <p>The <code>$</code> metacharacter is documented in the FreeBSD
>       manual page that I pointed to before, alongside a <code>~</code>
>       metacharacter which yields your desired result fairly trivially. 

OK.  I confess I only looked at the "setenv" section which says "A
comma-separated list of environment variables and values to which they
are to be set."  Then jumped to the bottom to look for examples, of
which there are zero.

I guess I should have read every single sentence, to find the part
about `~' and `$'.  That looks sufficient for all the real-world
cases I've seen.

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Ideal place to set environment variables Subhadip Ghosh <subhadip.sky@gmail.com> - 2018-03-19 20:10 +0100
  Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-19 20:20 +0100
    Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2018-03-29 23:10 +0200
      Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-30 16:00 +0200
        Re: Ideal place to set environment variables David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 16:30 +0200
        Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-03-30 17:30 +0200
        Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-03-30 19:20 +0200
          Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-30 19:40 +0200
            Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-30 20:20 +0200
            Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2018-03-30 21:10 +0200
          Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-03-30 21:20 +0200
            Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-30 21:40 +0200
              Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-03-30 22:00 +0200
                Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-30 22:10 +0200
        Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-04-09 14:40 +0200
          Re: Ideal place to set environment variables David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-09 19:00 +0200
  Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-03-19 23:00 +0100
    Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Subhadip Ghosh <subhadip.sky@gmail.com> - 2018-03-20 04:20 +0100
      Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-03-20 04:40 +0100
        Re: Ideal place to set environment variables Subhadip Ghosh <subhadip.sky@gmail.com> - 2018-03-20 18:30 +0100

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