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wayne@gbrmpa.gov.au (Wayne Amisano) writes:

>I am trying to write a script to set an environment variable in
>my tcsh environment.  I could use an alias to do it, but would
>much rather do it from a script.  What i need to do is, run a
>script to change the value of one environment variable, but
>every time i do this, it changes the variable in the spawned
>process, but it then disappears when it dies.

if it is not possible to use an alias, ( because it is too complex or
whatever ), try the following:

create your shell script
create an alias along the lines of:
	alias <alias> 'source <script>'

where <alias> and <script> are substituted with reasonable values.
This will solve your problem, because the current process runs the
script, and not a subshell!

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Finally one of those character piccies of Aus. Wish I had one! ;-)

catchya

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