Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:33:53PM +0100, sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
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>>I've been working with various shell scripts and found out that /bin/sh 
>>does not export variables. I'm running NetBSD-2.0F. Below is a simple 
>>shell script, which sets 3 variables and then prints out their values, 
>>after the script exits, the variables are not exported. Does anyone know 
>>what's going on here?
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>Child processes can't change their parent process' environment.  This
>won't work with any shell, on any Unix system.
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>If you want to run a shell script in the environment of your current
>shell, you need to run it with "." or "source" depending on which shell
>you're using.
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>Thor
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Right, I knew it was something silly like that, I better remember it 
next time :-)