Hi Robert, Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I got the reason- it is pretty much what I suspected. However, I am not clear on your reply. Is there a command line utility you are referring to, or a shell syntax (I'm using bash) that I should use to call the script? Sorry for being a bit thick on this one. Thanks again, Peter
Message: 7 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:08:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RedHat Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Setting temporary environment variables from a script, probable newbie question Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10 Jan 2003, Peter Davie wrote: > Hi, > I'm having a problem with setting environment variables that are only > supposed to exist in that terminal session. The script is shown below. any changes you make in a shell script that you run *normally* are not reflected in your current shell, as shell scripts are typically run in a subshell. so setting variables, or changing directories, will not affect what's happening at the command line ... ... unless you run the script by "sourcing" it, as in $ . (scriptname) the "." represents a command that will run the script at the current (in your case, command line) level. rday Peter Davie Jade Software (M) Sdn Bhd www.jadesoft.com Strategic IT Consulting -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
