Once upon a time David Baron said...
> On Monday 29 November 2004 16:04, Sam Watkins wrote:
> > If you want to see what variables are set, type:
> >
> > set
> >
> > this shows shell functions too.
> >
> > you can save these variables (and possibly functions) in a file:
> >
> > set > myvariables
> >
> > and restore them again:
> >
> > source ./myvariables
> >
> > or if you're lazy to type source:
> >
> > . ./myvariables
>
> set > myvariables does through every (I mean everything) somehow set in
> ~/myvariables.
>
> However, source ~/myvariables does NOT work. Script simply aborts. It is
> finding the file, otherwize, get error message.
Ok. I got bored and spend a minute writing this:
function savevars()
{
for var in "$@" ; do
eval "echo $var=\\\"\$$var\\\""
done
}
Just call it like:
savevars VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 >file
then load the vars with:
source ./file
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