Usually use to export path to the environment of subsequently executed commands.

setting up http proxy at console

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December 30th, 2006 mysurface

Setting up proxy at Firefox do not have effects at console, which means your wget, ssh, apt-get, yum etc do not access through the proxy you set at Firfox browser. To setup http proxy at console, you can do as bellow, assume the proxy IP is 219.93.2.113 and port 3128.
export http_proxy=’http://219.93.2.113:3128/’
Remember, you have to specified [...]

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Setting Environment Variable

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August 29th, 2006 liewsheng

You may wonder how you knowing the hostname or machine type you are log in. Actually we have a lot way to do so, one of them is print out the environment variable set. How we can set this variable? export is the command used in bash shell, example:
export VARIABLE_NAME=”any data you want to put [...]

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