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Date:	Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:36:16 +0100
From:	Pierre-Philippe Coupard <pcoupard AT easyconnect DOT fr>
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Subject:	Re: bash script does't work.
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Seiji Yoneda wrote:
> $ ora8i.sh        <---------------- Execute this script

--8<--8<--

> $ printenv ORA_HOME   <---------------- After execution of script
>     <----------- After execution, ORA_HOME has nothing !!
> $ printenv PATH   <---------------- After execution, PATH does't change!!

This isn't a cygwin issue.

Because the PATH you change in your script is a variable that's local to 
the shell running it. Because you call your script as a binary, another 
shell is spawned (the #!/bin/sh basically tells the kernel to use 
/bin/sh as the interpreter).

Try running you script as ". ora8i.sh" and it'll work : the "." is a 
shell command that means "execute this shell script" (in the current shell).

-- 
Pierre-Philippe Coupard <pcoupard AT easyconnect DOT fr>
Software Engineer
--
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?


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