Mike Meyer wrote:
> Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:35:48 -0000
>>Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2005-12-20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have csh script that calls a bunch of python programs
>>>>and I'd like to use env variables as kind of a global
>>>>variable that I can pass around to the pythong scripts.
>>>
>>>You can't change the environment of the parent process.
>>>
>>>IOW, the python programs can't change the environment of
>>>the calling csh script (or, by extenstion, the environment
>>>of subsequent python programs that are called by the csh
>>>script).
>>
>>There is an evil trick, however:
>>
>>Instead of setting the environment directly, have the python
>>program return csh code to alter the environment the way you
>>want, then call the python code by "sourcing" its output:
>>
>>source `my_script.py`
>
>
> Does this actually work? It looks to me like you need two levels:
> my_script.py creates a file, then outputs the name of the file, as the
> csh source command reads commands from the file named as an argument.
>
> To be able to output the commands directly, you'd need to use the eval
> command, not the source command.
>
>
>>It's ugly, but it does work -- I have had to use this
>>before in a production environment. Well, it's not really
>>any less advisable than scripting in csh to begin with. ;-)
>
>
> Doesn't matter what you're scripting in - you'll have to do some such
> circumlocution to set the parent scripts environment variables.
>
I suspect the trick that Terry was thinking of was eval, not source. You
are correct in saying he'd need to create a file to source.
When I run
ssh-agent
I see:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-J0r9XFySTm/agent.5500; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=5796; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 5796;
The process number varies each time. If I run
eval `ssh-agent`
I see:
Agent pid 4364
(this is Cygwin, hence the funky process numbers). Now, of course, I can
see the variables in the current shell's environment:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp
$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK $SSH_AGENT_PID
/tmp/ssh-W6LEPi8wC0/agent.4152 4364
regards
Steve
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