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If you add a semicolon then FRED is no longer a single command variable (it persists)
> on NetBSD, one can do this
Linux also does the expected thing:
$ FRED=barney printenv FRED
barney
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If you add a semicolon then FRED is no longer a single command variable (it persists)
> on NetBSD, one can do this
Linux also does the expected thing:
$ FRED=barney printenv FRED
barney