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I never understand what "export" does. For example, what's the difference between these two?




  1. PYTHONPATH=/home/myaccount/ & export PYTHONPATH and

  2. PYTHONPATH=/home/myaccount/



One with export and the other without.


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If you don't export, then the environment variable will only be visible locally. Exporting makes them available to other programs and shells you might launch (from that shell).


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