On Sunday 07 May 2006 18:33, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > try > #!/bin/sh > it may work
> Henrique hi Henrique, i had tried that (described in my original post), and it did not work. On the other hand, what does work, is taking all the different variable definitions and export lines and putting them in a file (eg. variable_exports) . then i simply say source variable_exports the difference is that running a shell script ( ie your suggestion of running ./variable_exports with a first line of #!/bin/sh ) forks a _new_ shell (a unix child process ) and does not! affect the running process. On the other hand source variable_exports sets the variables in variable_exports for the same process. Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
