From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 10:47:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF5F37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 10:47:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f4GHln767931; Wed, 16 May 2001 10:47:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:47:49 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: How to use setenv to set TERM? Message-ID: <20010516104749.A67794@wopr.caltech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drewt@writeme.com on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:37:13AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:37:13AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I want to set my TERM to vt100. I am issuing the command: > > setenv TERM=vt100 > > However, when I use setenv to view the results, TERM=vt100=. How can I drop > the last "="? By using the correct syntax. You have set the variable TERM=vt100 to and empty value. Try "setenv TERM vt100". setenv [name [value]] Without arguments, prints the names and values of all environment variables. Given name, sets the environment variable name to value or, without value, to the null string. -- Matthew Hunt * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message