Re: alias

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From: Robert Elz
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 20:25

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In <1992Sep2.000915.16261@wdl.loral.com>
mdm@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Mike D Marchionna) writes:

| function xdsp () { declare -x DISPLAY=$1:0.0 }

Try not using declare, as in

mulga$ g()
> {
> AAA=$1
> export AAA
> }
mulga$ g hello
mulga$ echo $AAA
hello

Whether the way "declare" works is a bug or not someone else can say.

kre

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From: kre@cs.mu.oz.AU (Robert Elz)
Subject: Re: alias
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