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Article #123Re: setting variable from script to current environment??
From: Samuel N Kamens
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:19
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:19
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In article <1992Jul22.014834.1384@jpradley.jpr.com>, jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: > In article <1992Jul21.070212.16485@gbrmpa.gov.au> wayne@gbrmpa.gov.au (Wayne Amisano) writes: > > If you "source script" (csh, tcsh), or ". script" (sh, ksh), then yes, you can > set variables that way. One thing to be careful of when you source shells -- if those shells have an "exit" in them, that will cause the *PARENT* process to exit. I can't count how many times I have sourced a file that did an exit and watched my xterm disappear..... :-( Sam -- Sam Kamens Bell Communications Research snk@bae.bellcore.com Phone: (908) 699-7509 444 Hoes Lane Room RRC 1D-210 Piscataway, NJ 08854
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!walter!fork!snk From: snk@fork.bae.bellcore.com (Samuel N Kamens) Subject: Re: setting variable from script to current environment?? Message-ID: <1992Jul23.191928.4948@walter.bellcore.com> Sender: news@walter.bellcore.com Nntp-Posting-Host: fork.bae.bellcore.com Reply-To: snk@bae.bellcore.com Organization: Bell Communications Research References: <1992Jul21.070212.16485@gbrmpa.gov.au> <1992Jul22.014834.1384@jpradley.jpr.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 19:19:28 GMT Lines: 20