unsetting in Bourne shell

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1 total messages Started by Brian Kenney Fri, 19 Oct 1990 13:16

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Author: Brian Kenney
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 13:16

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How does one unset an environment variable in the Bourne shell?

Since I normally use the K shell, I expected unset to work. Nope.
I then tried export VAR="".  While it did remove its value, the
variable still existed.  I tried RTFM to no avail.

Thanks in advance...

-bri
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Brian Kenney                                                   kenney@hsi.com 
3M Health Information Systems

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