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export problem.
- From: David Ryan <Oobles at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:20:48 +1000
- Subject: export problem.
I have very simple script that all it needs to do is export some
environment variables. I can't seem to get it to work. All it does is..
export PS2DEV=/usr/ps2dev
If I do this on the command line it works fine.. and if I place it in
/etc/profile it works also. I assume whats happenning is its starting a
shell.. setting the environment variable and then closing the shell.
How do I write a script that modifies the current environment?
If I can get the one line working I'll be expanding it, so doing it on
the command line everytime is not an option.
I have the cygwin 1.3.12-4 installed. I also tried going back to
1.3.10-1 to see if it was a bug. I'm hoping theres something small I'm
missing.
Thanks,
David.
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