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- From: snk@fork.bae.bellcore.com (Samuel N Kamens)
- Subject: Re: setting variable from script to current environment??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.191928.4948@walter.bellcore.com>
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- Organization: Bell Communications Research
- References: <1992Jul21.070212.16485@gbrmpa.gov.au> <1992Jul22.014834.1384@jpradley.jpr.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 19:19:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.014834.1384@jpradley.jpr.com>, jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul21.070212.16485@gbrmpa.gov.au> wayne@gbrmpa.gov.au (Wayne Amisano) writes:
- >
- > If you "source script" (csh, tcsh), or ". script" (sh, ksh), then yes, you can
- > set variables that way.
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- One thing to be careful of when you source shells -- if those shells
- have an "exit" in them, that will cause the *PARENT* process to exit.
-
- I can't count how many times I have sourced a file that did an exit
- and watched my xterm disappear..... :-(
-
- Sam
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