How to set an environment variable question
 

Hi all.

I have seen 2 versions for the following:

export PATH=$PATH:/some_directory

and

export PATH=${PATH}:/some_directory


Is anyone of them better than the other? Or in other words, are '{'
and '}' redundant? (I don't know shell programming).


Thank you a lot,

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How to set an environment variable question
 

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> I have seen 2 versions for the following:
>
> export PATH=$PATH:/some_directory
>
> and
>
> export PATH=${PATH}:/some_directory
>
>
> Is anyone of them better than the other? Or in other words, are '{'
> and '}' redundant? (I don't know shell programming).

In this case there is no difference. Braces are useful if you want to
mix variables and text. Try this to see the difference:

a=hell
echo $ao
echo ${a}o

The first echo command has no output because the variable "ao" is
undefined (unless you have set it for some reason). The second echo
command uses the contents of variable "a" and appends an "o".


Nils

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