What's the difference between “export” and “setenv”?

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What's the difference between export and setenv?

akira · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-04 19:25:04Z

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there is none but:

setenv is the name of the command in the *csh family of shells

export is the name of the command in the "other" family of shells (ash, bourne, bourne again, zsh)

and, ok, the syntax is slightly different. but other than that? none.

answered Mar 4 '11 at 19:25

akira
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Are we allowed to consider that bastard c-shell syntax from Berkeley "deprecated" yet? – msw Mar 5 '11 at 4:39

no: tcsh.org/Welcome – akira Mar 5 '11 at 6:19

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