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hiya,

I want to set an environment variable to contain more than one command,
then have the shell expand these commands and execute them. it wont!
help!

return'"

$SPIENV                                                
unset TERMCAP ; echo 'press enter to return'

ksh: ;: This is not an identifier.

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Suggestion - use "alias" instead:

alias SPIENV='unset TERMCAP ; echo "press enter to return"'

invoke it with "SPIENV" (no $). If you want to undo it - "unalias SPIENV"
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Blaine Owens

Mike

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|>
|> >hiya,
|> >
|> >I want to set an environment variable to contain more than one command,
|> >then have the shell expand these commands and execute them. it wont!
|> >help!
|> >

|> >return'"

|> >$SPIENV                                                
|> >unset TERMCAP ; echo 'press enter to return'

|> >ksh: ;: This is not an identifier.
|>
|> I don't know what you're doing but if it's just to do multiple
|> commands on the command line then you might look into
|> using an alias instead of an environment variable.

Check out eval, as in:

    $ eval $SPIENV.

jl
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