On 3 May 2010 10:25, Daniel Fischer
It is by my bash:
dafis@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell> export DUMMY=~/bin:~/.cabal dafis@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell> echo $DUMMY /home/dafis/bin:/home/dafis/.cabal dafis@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell> printenv DUMMY /home/dafis/bin:/home/dafis/.cabal dafis@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell> ghc -e 'System.Environment.getEnv "DUMMY"' "/home/dafis/bin:/home/dafis/.cabal" dafis@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell> bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i586-suse-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Apparently, it's version-dependent (unsurprisingly). What's your shell?
This is on my ubuntu box at uni: ivanm@feitpc02 ~ $export DUMMY="~/bin:~/cabal" ivanm@feitpc02 ~ $echo $DUMMY ~/bin:~/cabal ivanm@feitpc02 ~ $printenv DUMMY ~/bin:~/cabal ivanm@feitpc02 ~ $bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ivanm@feitpc02 ~ $ So yeah, looks like it's version-specific. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com