In /bin/sh: BLA=66 -->;<-- export BLA

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1532 at cbnewse.ATT.COM> danj1 at ihlpa.ATT.COM (Dan Jacobson) writes:
>In Bourne (Korn too) shell, I've seen the cool guys write:
>	BLA=66 export BLA
>Is this guaranteed :-) to always have the same effect as:
>	BLA=66; export BLA

Originally Korn's shell didn't do this compatibly with the Bourne shell,
but upon receiving complaints he changed it to do so.  Therefore I would
say that it is likely to continue to work this way.