<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61272">Hello, <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61251"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_62512" dir="ltr">>I’m using Biolinux 8 on a university PC (I login as user and not admin)
and I’m having problem with <br>>a very basic task – assigning variables in
the shell!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_62513"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61593" dir="ltr">If you're trying to set environmental variables, you'll need to use export before the rest of the statement. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61594" dir="ltr">e.g.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61574" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61720" dir="ltr">export MYVAR=1 </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61575" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_62698" dir="ltr">Setting environmental variables is covered on page 29 of the Bio-Linux tutorial:<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61273"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61255" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61254" href="http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/downloads/courses/Bio-Linux/bl8_latest.pdf">http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/downloads/courses/Bio-Linux/bl8_latest.pdf</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_61250"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_62699" dir="ltr"><span>I hope that's the information you were looking for. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_62312" dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_62313" dir="ltr"><span>Best wishes, <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_62314" dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424020457872_62700" dir="ltr"><span>Bela</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Den Mandag, 16. februar 2015 12.38 skrev Giulia Zancolli <g.zancolli@bangor.ac.uk>:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6090720214">
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">Hello,</div>
<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">I’m using Biolinux 8 on a university PC (I login as user and not admin) and I’m having problem with a very basic task – assigning variables in the shell!</div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">I type something very simple like </div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">a=1 </div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">and I get the error: command “a=” not found</div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">or the following (which was working perfectly in Linux on my laptop)</div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">LIST="$(ls | grep "fastq$")"</div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">And I get the error “Illegal variable name”</div>
<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal"> </div>
<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">What might be wrong?</div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">Any clue is very appreciated!</div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal">Giulia</div>
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<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0B5394;">Dr Giulia Zancolli</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0B5394;">Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Lab</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;"></span></div>
<div class="yiv6090720214MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0B5394;">School of Biological Sciences <br>
Bangor University<br>
Environment Centre Wales<br>
Bangor LL57 2UW <br>
UK </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222;"></span></div>
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