[SOLVED] Envoirment Variables.

[RobinVossen]

Hello all,

I got a odd issue and I guess it would be easy to fix.
However, I just don't get it.
I am testing a Perl CGI Application and I had some bugs in there.
So, well patching time.
So, I wanted to set my HTTP Cookie to run the script from the command line and see all the output.

Thus:

[root@server http]# set HTTP_COOKIE=user=admin
[root@server http]# echo $HTTP_COOKIE
[root@server http]# set
BASH=/bin/bash
..output trimmed..
_=HTTP_COOKIE=user=admin
shell=bash

However it doesn't set the HTTP cookie value. it sets the value _ with my values.
This is rather bothersome as I read:
Perl CGI Script Debugging: Solving a 500 Internal Server Error (thesitewizard.com) and Environment Variables - Linux Commands


How to set them. (and I remember doing it like this in the past)
But it didnt seem to work.

So, any advice / tips would be great

Cheers all,
Robin

[Kieren]

To set an environment variable in bash you need to use export:

export foo=bar

Set was used in the cshell

[RobinVossen]

D'oh -.-'
Thanks!

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