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- .TH EXPORT "1P" 2017 "IEEE/The Open Group" "POSIX Programmer's Manual"
- .\"
- .SH PROLOG
- This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
- The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult
- the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
- or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
- .\"
- .SH NAME
- export
- \(em set the export attribute for variables
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .LP
- .nf
- export name\fB[\fR=\fIword\fB]\fR...
- .P
- export\fR -p
- .fi
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- The shell shall give the
- .IR export
- attribute to the variables corresponding to the specified
- .IR name s,
- which shall cause them to be in the environment of subsequently
- executed commands. If the name of a variable is followed by =\c
- .IR word ,
- then the value of that variable shall be set to
- .IR word .
- .P
- The
- .IR export
- special built-in shall support the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1\(hy2017,
- .IR "Section 12.2" ", " "Utility Syntax Guidelines".
- .P
- When
- .BR \-p
- is specified,
- .IR export
- shall write to the standard output the names and values of all exported
- variables, in the following format:
- .sp
- .RS 4
- .nf
- "export %s=%s\en", <\fIname\fR>, <\fIvalue\fR>
- .fi
- .P
- .RE
- .P
- if
- .IR name
- is set, and:
- .sp
- .RS 4
- .nf
- "export %s\en", <\fIname\fR>
- .fi
- .P
- .RE
- .P
- if
- .IR name
- is unset.
- .P
- The shell shall format the output, including the proper use of quoting,
- so that it is suitable for reinput to the shell as commands that
- achieve the same exporting results, except:
- .IP " 1." 4
- Read-only variables with values cannot be reset.
- .IP " 2." 4
- Variables that were unset at the time they were output need not be
- reset to the unset state if a value is assigned to the variable between
- the time the state was saved and the time at which the saved output is
- reinput to the shell.
- .P
- When no arguments are given, the results are unspecified.
- .SH OPTIONS
- See the DESCRIPTION.
- .SH OPERANDS
- See the DESCRIPTION.
- .SH STDIN
- Not used.
- .SH "INPUT FILES"
- None.
- .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
- None.
- .SH "ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS"
- Default.
- .SH STDOUT
- See the DESCRIPTION.
- .SH STDERR S
- The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
- .SH "OUTPUT FILES"
- None.
- .SH "EXTENDED DESCRIPTION"
- None.
- .SH "EXIT STATUS"
- .IP "\00" 6
- All
- .IR name
- operands were successfully exported.
- .IP >0 6
- At least one
- .IR name
- could not be exported, or the
- .BR \-p
- option was specified and an error occurred.
- .SH "CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS"
- Default.
- .LP
- .IR "The following sections are informative."
- .SH "APPLICATION USAGE"
- Note that, unless
- .IR X
- was previously marked readonly, the value of
- .BR \(dq$?\(dq
- after:
- .sp
- .RS 4
- .nf
- export X=$(false)
- .fi
- .P
- .RE
- .P
- will be 0 (because
- .IR export
- successfully set
- .IR X
- to the empty string) and that execution continues, even if
- .IR set
- .BR \-e
- is in effect. In order to detect command substitution failures, a user
- must separate the assignment from the export, as in:
- .sp
- .RS 4
- .nf
- X=$(false)
- export X
- .fi
- .P
- .RE
- .SH EXAMPLES
- Export
- .IR PWD
- and
- .IR HOME
- variables:
- .sp
- .RS 4
- .nf
- export PWD HOME
- .fi
- .P
- .RE
- .P
- Set and export the
- .IR PATH
- variable:
- .sp
- .RS 4
- .nf
- export PATH=/local/bin:$PATH
- .fi
- .P
- .RE
- .P
- Save and restore all exported variables:
- .sp
- .RS 4
- .nf
- export -p > \fItemp-file\fR
- unset \fIa lot of variables\fR
- \&... \fIprocessing\fR
- \&. \fItemp-file\fR
- .fi
- .P
- .RE
- .SH "RATIONALE"
- Some historical shells use the no-argument case as the functional
- equivalent of what is required here with
- .BR \-p .
- This feature was left unspecified because it is not historical practice
- in all shells, and some scripts may rely on the now-unspecified results
- on their implementations. Attempts to specify the
- .BR \-p
- output as the default case were unsuccessful in achieving consensus.
- The
- .BR \-p
- option was added to allow portable access to the values that can be
- saved and then later restored using; for example, a
- .IR dot
- script.
- .SH "FUTURE DIRECTIONS"
- None.
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .IR "Section 2.14" ", " "Special Built-In Utilities"
- .P
- The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1\(hy2017,
- .IR "Section 12.2" ", " "Utility Syntax Guidelines"
- .\"
- .SH COPYRIGHT
- Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
- from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology
- -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
- Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition,
- Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of
- Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.
- In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
- The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard
- is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
- http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .
- .PP
- Any typographical or formatting errors that appear
- in this page are most likely
- to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to
- man page format. To report such errors, see
- https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .