Re: how to set environmental variables for a shell temporarily (ie not via .bashrc)

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net>]

On Sunday 07 May 2006 18:33, Henrique G. Abreu wrote:
> try
> #!/bin/sh
> it may work

> Henrique

hi Henrique,

i had tried that (described in my original post), and it did not work.

On the other hand, what does work,
is taking all the different variable definitions and export lines and putting 
them in a file (eg. variable_exports) .

then i simply say

source  variable_exports

the difference is that 
running a shell script 
( ie your suggestion of running
./variable_exports with a first line of
#!/bin/sh )
forks a _new_ shell (a unix  child process ) and does not! affect the running 
process.

On the other hand 

source variable_exports

sets the variables in variable_exports 
for the same process.

Mitchell