Re: [SLUG] vipw

[Steve Kowalik <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At  5:11 pm, Sunday, June  8 2003, Robert Tillsley <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mumbled:
> I've got it running, though I needed to remove the $. Do you know if its a 
> permanent change, or do I need to do this every time I log in?
> 
Right, I said this, I should explain:

> > broken:~# export VISUAL="$(which ed)"

steven@broken:~$ which ed
/bin/ed

$() is a subshell, so that sets VISUAL to /bin/ed.

Now, to answer your question, it's not a permanent change. You need to do
something like this:

steven@broken:~$ grep export .bash_profile | head -1
export MAILNAME="Steve Kowalik"

Cheers,
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