McKown, John wrote: > However, it would be useless because, as best as I know, there is no > way to propagate the variable back to the parent. But a shell script can grep the output (stderr) and set that variable. If that one is included via "source" command, it will be available in the shell environment that did do the vmcp command before. --
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