export - It is used to mark variables and functions to be passed to child processes

To display all exported variables $ export

To view all exported variables on the current shell $ export -p

The variable ‘community’ has been assigned the value ‘ilugc’ $ community=ilugc $ export community check with $ printenv community

To export shell function $ name() { echo "ilugc"; } $ export -f name $ bash $ name

regards, T.Dhanasekar