Re: Condition evaluation removed

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:06 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> This makes it sounds as if "export VAR=VALUE" were bash-specific,
> but in fact this syntax is part of POSIX:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/export.html

True, although older versions didn't have this IIRC.

And, there are still very popular, widely-used versions of UNIX
where /bin/sh does not support "export VAR=value"; for example /bin/sh
on Solaris (all current releases I'm aware of) does not support it.

Cheers!