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Rui F Ribeiro
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I am having some problem with bash. I want to export an environment variable whose value contains a variable but I don't want that variable (which is within the value) to be evaluated during the export process. i.e.

export STY=for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done

so my requirement is that when I echo STY, the output that I need should be

echo $STY
for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done

But $i is evaluated during export. I need to preserve it as it is.

Thanks alot for your help.

I am having some problem with bash. I want to export an environment variable whose value contains a variable but I don't want that variable (which is within the value) to be evaluated during the export process. i.e.

export STY=for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done

so my requirement is that when I echo STY, the output that I need should be

echo $STY
for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done

But $i is evaluated during export. I need to preserve it as it is.

Thanks alot for your help.

I want to export an environment variable whose value contains a variable but I don't want that variable (which is within the value) to be evaluated during the export process. i.e.

export STY=for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done

so my requirement is that when I echo STY, the output that I need should be

echo $STY
for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done

But $i is evaluated during export. I need to preserve it as it is.

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Exporting environment variable

I am having some problem with bash. I want to export an environment variable whose value contains a variable but I don't want that variable (which is within the value) to be evaluated during the export process. i.e.

export STY=for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done

so my requirement is that when I echo STY, the output that I need should be

echo $STY
for i in {0..3}; do echo $i; done

But $i is evaluated during export. I need to preserve it as it is.

Thanks alot for your help.