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What's the difference between export and setenv?

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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.

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    Are we allowed to consider that bastard c-shell syntax from Berkeley "deprecated" yet?
    – msw
    Mar 5, 2011 at 4:39
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    no: tcsh.org/Welcome
    – akira
    Mar 5, 2011 at 6:19
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    it's good to be aware that in bourne (unlike bash) you can't do export VARIABLE=VALUE. Instead you need to do VARIABLE=VALUE\n export VARIABLE
    – Mike Vella
    Apr 4, 2017 at 16:19

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