export
NAME
export - The supplied names are marked for automatic export to the environment of subsequently executed commandsSYNOPSIS
export [-fn] [name[=word]] ...
export -p
DESCRIPTION
The supplied names are marked for automatic export to the environment of subsequently executed commands. If the -f option is given, the names refer to functions. If no names are given, or if the -p option is supplied, a list of names of all exported variables is printed. The -n option causes the export property to be removed from each name. If a variable name is followed by =word, the value of the variable is set to word. export returns an exit status of 0 unless an invalid option is encountered, one of the names is not a valid shell variable name, or -f is supplied with a name that is not a function.
SEE ALSO
This is extracted from the main bash man page, see there for more details.