Re: export won't work
Russell wrote:
>
> "Eric G. Miller" wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> I'm trying to export a variable so that i can see what it was
> set to at that point in the script. What would be an easy way
> to do this, without using "source ./script" ? I don't want to
> use 'source', because i'd have to remove numerous exit statements,
> to prevent killing the current shell.
I'm getting too confused now. I could just use echo <variable>.
Time to stop i think;)
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