To maintain the environment variables after the script exits you need to
invoke with:
. <scriptname>
Neale
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:39 -0500, Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT] wrote:
> OK, I'm stumped. This ought to be easy but I don't see it.
>
> Running a script to update the $PATH and set a few others. But they
> don't change.
>
> Running in bash
>
> The script is:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> set NETE_WA_ROOT=/opt/netegrity/webagent
> export NETE_WA_ROOT
>
> NETE_WA_PATH=${NETE_WA_ROOT}/bin
> export NETE_WA_PATH
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${NETE_WA_ROOT}/bin:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> PATH=${NETE_WA_PATH}:${PATH}
> export PATH
>
>
> I've echoed out the variables and they look right in the script, but
> after it runs nothing has changed.
>
> Help!?!
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