970617: building netCDF on an HP-UX <something>

Bill,

>Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:09:57 -0400 
>From: Bill Hudson <address@hidden>
>Organization: Pennsylvania State University/Applied Research Laboratory
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 970616: building netCDF on an HP-UX <something> 
>Keywords: 199707151311.HAA19835

In the above message, you wrote:

>  I apparently am working with the "sh" Bourne shell since I have the "$" on
> my terminal and I get SHELL=/bin/sh as one of the outputs of the "set" or
> "env" commands. I can not locate any instruction FOO to be set to bar,
> (FOObar). I looked under sh, env, environ, profile, exec, an HP-UX
> reference, various HP Visual Environment manuals, HP C++ manuals and a Waite
> group UNIX Primer Plus Second Edition. Unfortunately the UNIX Primer Plus is
> written about BSD Unix vs. Bourne. 
> 
>   Any suggestions on how I should proceed? 

You should be able to access the manual page for the sh(1) shell via the
following command:

    man sh

From the manual page, you should learn about environment variables.

Try executing the following commands:

            FOO=bar
            sh -c 'echo no export: $FOO'
            export FOO
            sh -c 'echo with export: $FOO'

What is the output?

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>