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Re: Reading and setting the environment from a shell script for the calling program

by doowah2004 (Monk)
on Sep 01, 2004 at 20:33 UTC ( [id://387700]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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Re^2: Reading and setting the environment from a shell script for the calling program
by Errto (Vicar) on Sep 02, 2004 at 02:00 UTC
    Because it won't work. That will launch a child process that will set some environment variables and then exit without affecting the parent at all. herveus's reply offers a good solution.

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