Re: Life, The Universe, and env variables

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Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Enkidu wrote:
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> If I'm understanding you correctly you want to do:
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> export FOO=bar
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> in one shell and have applications running in other consoles be able to
> reference it? The answer, then, is no. Environments are initialised only
> once, and that's when a process starts. Even if you had, say, a background
> process running in your current shell, updating an environment variable in the
> current shell won't be reflected in the background job.
>

This is precisely what I wanted to do. I overlooked using files as a medium,
though. Now I just have to find a good Perl resource... Thanks for your help.

Art Brown
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There is in certain living souls
A quality of loneliness unspeakable,
So great it must be shared
As company is shared by lesser beings.
Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this
That in immensity
There is one lonelier than you.
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