Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:30:09PM -0600, Penguin Lover Kris Kerwin squawked: > Thanks to all for helping. > > The source command did the trick, Alex. > > ?# echo "export VARIABLE='test'" >> test_script > # chmod 754 test_script > # ./test_script > # echo $VARIABLE >

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

Thanks to all for helping. The source command did the trick, Alex.  # echo "export VARIABLE='test'" >> test_script # chmod 754 test_script # ./test_script # echo $VARIABLE Get's changed to: # echo "export VARIABLE='test'" >> test_script # chmod 75

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

On Monday 02 January 2006 22:35, Kris Kerwin wrote: > works. However, > > # echo "export VARIABLE='test'" >> test_script > # chmod 754 test_script > # ./test_script > # echo $VARIABLE > > does not work. I've also tried the above while omitting the 'export' > command, to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

On 1/2/06, Kris Kerwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having difficulties exporting environment variables from within > scripts. The problem doesn't seem to occur when exporting variables > from the command line. > > To reiterate with an example, > > # export VARIABLE='test' >