On 11/8/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 17:28 -0600, inode0 wrote: > It appears you are suggesting setting a variable in the environment of > the parent process via exporting it in the child process. My brain is > hurting this evening but I think the exported variable in the script > would only be exported to the environment of any child processes it > creates?! Ah, you're right. However, if the variable exists BEFORE the script is called, the script can modify its contents and it'll persist.
Can you provide an example of doing that? I don't see how that would be possible without some clever trickery. John