[aklug] Re: Export bash variables...

when the script 'executes' it's launching into a new process.

What you really want is:

$ . envscript.sh

which executes in the context of the current process.=20

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> Instead of manually setting my project variables, I was=20
> thinking I could set them through a script like so:
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> #!/usr/bin/env bash
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> LFS=3D/vm/drv85-0000-p1
> export LFS
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> This scripts executes, but for some reason afterwards
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> echo $LFS
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> echos only a blank line. Am I missing something?
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Received on Thu Sep 9 15:32:14 2010