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-bash: Export: [filename] Not A Valid Identifier
Post Description: i am running a command to set my environment variables on my linux centos server but i get this error when i try to send my command
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This Post Was Posted On Feb 28, 2010 By Restinalis62 #3177

-bash: Export: [filename] Not A Valid Identifier by Restinalis62

i am running a command to set my environment variables on my linux CentOS server but i get this error when i try to send my command

# export FILENAME = my backups.tar.gz

then i get this message

-bash: export: 'my backups.tar.gz': not a valid identifier

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#3531 1

your command should be like this instead:

# export FILENAME=my backups.tar.gz

as you can see, you had spaces between the equal sign, i removed those spaces

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