On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 07:04:07PM +1000, Russell wrote: > Hi, > > Why won't export work? When i run this > bash script on debian 3: > > #!/bin/sh > ABC=def > export ABC > exit 0 > > when i type 'export', then ABC doesn't > appear in the list of environment variables. A process can't change the environment of it's parent. What are you trying to do? -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>