RE: Changing parent process environment (one mo time)

["Heltzel, Dennis" <DHeltzel IKON com>]

Try this:

. subscript

Where subscript is a script (or program) that changes the env variable. The
"." and space before it tells the shell to execute it "in place". 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Waters [SMTP:wwwaters prismnet com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 01, 1999 11:00 AM
> To:	RedHat Mailing List
> Subject:	Changing parent process environment (one mo time)
> 
> Hate to be a nag but some of you said "No Way" others "Yes" and some
> "Maybe"....
> 
> So....I'll try to state it a little bit differently:
> 
> If I enter "export FOO=bar" from the command line and the enter "env"
> again
> from the
> command line I will get a list of the environment variables which will
> include "FOO=bar"....
> 
> So far any thing else I have tried (my own code) to cause an equivalent
> thing to happen
> in a shell script or perl program is only valid while the script/program
> is
> running, once
> they exit to the original shell the environment remains unchanged.....
> 
> Questions: 1. Am I just not doing this right or is this an unreasonable
> expectation?
>                     2. How is it that the command "export" is able to do
> this? (obviously it is
>                          someone's code)
> 
> NOTE: I do appreciate all the replies I received, haven't tried all of
> them
> yet......guess I'm
> just a hard-headed old hacker that want's to understand....
> 
> Bill Waters
> 
> 
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