[IBMiOSS] bash overwrite environment variable -- OPENSOURCE

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Subject: [IBMiOSS] bash overwrite environment variable
From: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 21:51:38 +0000
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I'm in an SSH bash session, and I need to overwrite an existing environment variable. Is this the command:
export VAR="value"

Is that correct? That won't affect anything outside that specific bash session, right?

TIA

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Re: [IBMiOSS] bash overwrite environment variable , Jack Woehr
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