Exporting variables

The following command may be used to examine and remove things from the environment. env, set, unset, export

If we set a variable using name=foobar this variable won't be visible in scripts we launch because those scripts run in a subshell and the variable is local.

If we would like to make sure the variable is visible in the subshell we have to export the variable. 


$ name=foobar
$ echo $name
foobar
$ ./show_name.sh 

$ export name=FooBar
$ echo $name
FooBar
$ ./show_name.sh 
FooBar

examples/script/show_name.sh
echo $name