On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:53:18AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/11/07 08:24, Jan-Florian Hilgenberg wrote: > > Hi guy's, first I am german, so ignore my bad english please ;-) > > > > i want to get a variable out of a child shell in it parent shell, the sense > > is, that I want to use the ProxyServer of my school automaticly if it is > > pingable, the script isn't hard but the variable isn't fully global after > > exporting it > > > [snip] > > > > so, i think it is enaugh ;-) > > I am really anxious for your answer and want to thank you for your help, > > thank you ;-) > > I don't think you *can* move environment variables "up the chain" on > Unix-like systems.
can't you "source" the child script instead of executing it? . child_script.sh A
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