Export Problem

[Richard E Miles]

> Perhaps a tad OT. From the command line, if I do "export FOO='bar'" and
> then do export -p, the result is as expected.
> 
> However, if I do the same thing in a script:
> #!/bin/bash
> export FOO="bar"
> 
> . . . it does not create the variable. export -p and it's not there.
> 
> Where am I going wrong? What don't I get? 
> 
> Thanks.

When you run from a script if forks and runs in it's on environment. The export
is only seen in the script environment.
-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097