On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 22:48, Jesus Arocho wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Although I did not understand your last > paragraph, I did learn a few things from your example. I did get all > of the values and the variables were gone when the script ended. Maybe > I have been confused all along. Here is my file: > > #!/bin/sh > PALMTOPCENTERDIR=/opt/Qtopia/qtopiadesktop > QTDIR=/usr/local/qt > PATH=$PATH:$PALMTOPCENTERDIR/:$PALMTOPCENTERDIR/lib > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$QTDIR/lib:$PALMTOPCENTERDIR/:$PALMTOP >CENTERDIR/lib export QTDIR PALMTOPCENTERDIR PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > I expected the variables to retain the new values when the script ends. > So, I open a terminal from KDE desktop, run the script, do some work, > and close the terminal. Except that the new values only exist for > whatever process runs from that particular shell. > > The question then is, can this be done?
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