On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:18 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > FOO=bar <----mean? Those are environment variables. Open up a command prompt and type "env" to see your current environment variables listed. Some of these variables are system-wide variables, set from the /etc/environment file, and some are per-user variables, set in your ~/.bashrc for instance. You can manually set an environment variable if needed with something like: $ export MYSWEETVARIABLE=foobar ...then you can verify it's been set: $ env | grep SWEET MYSWEETVARIABLE=foobar Note: this variable will only exist for your current shell instance. Once you exit that shell, the variable will go away. If you need persistent environment variables, add them to your ~/.bashrc file. Also note: if you need a variable to only last for the execution of a single command, you can do this: $ MYSWEETVARIABLE=foobar /path/to/command -Erik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140421/76beb7a2/attachment.html>