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On 1/2/06, Kris Kerwin <kkerwin@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm having difficulties exporting environment variables from within |
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> scripts. The problem doesn't seem to occur when exporting variables |
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> from the command line. |
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> To reiterate with an example, |
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> # export VARIABLE='test' |
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> # echo $VARIABLE |
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> works. However, |
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> # echo "export VARIABLE='test'" >> test_script |
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> # chmod 754 test_script |
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> # ./test_script |
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> # echo $VARIABLE |
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On Linux/Unix, environment variables a passed from parent processes to |
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children, never the other way around. This is unlike windows where |
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environment variables are shared by all processes. |
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So this is the expected and correct behavior, and thus, not a bug. |
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-Richard |
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