Export Problem

[Mike Burger]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, David Cary Hart wrote:

> Perhaps a tad OT. From the command line, if I do "export FOO='bar'" and
> then do export -p, the result is as expected.
> 
> However, if I do the same thing in a script:
> #!/bin/bash
> export FOO="bar"
> 
> . . . it does not create the variable. export -p and it's not there.
> 
> Where am I going wrong? What don't I get? 

I don't think you need the ' or the " around the value.
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