Le Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:56:25AM +0100, Chris Jackson a écrit : >> >> I would like to send a patch Upstream, but have not found a drop-in >> replacement >> for this command, apart from someghing ugly like: >> >> BAR=$FOO ; unset FOO ; FOO=$BAR ; unset BAR >> >> to replace ‘export -n FOO’.
> * perhaps you can run the commands needing the exported variable > in a subshell? (see under "Grouping Commands Together" in the > man page). If you export anything in a subshell, it won't be > reflected in the "main" shell, but beware, nor will any other > shell builtin take effect. (Potentially also not pretty, and/or > a lot of work rewriting) Thanks a lot for the suggestion! In my particular case, I think that it does what is intended. I will replace the following line of the Perl script that causes problem with dash: open (WOSSNAME, "export -n EMBOSS_ACDCOMMANDLINE;wossname -alpha -auto|") || die "Cannot run wossname"; by the following line: open (WOSSNAME, "(unset EMBOSS_ACDCOMMANDLINE; wossname -alpha -auto)|") || die "Cannot run wossname"; This wossname command just prints to stdout a list of available commands from the EMBOSS software suite Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100712115655.ga20...@merveille.plessy.net
