X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: bash does not retain env when running script Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:52:09 -0600 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <20061114183911.4926.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20061114183911.4926.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Arto Stimms wrote: > I would like to run a bash script with a few changes in the environment. I would expect this to work: > [snip] > As a small example I have tried using these two minimal files > > init.sh: > hello () { echo "hello world"; } > alias listdir=ls > > script: > hello > listdir > > I get the following output: > > $ bash --rcfile init.sh script > script: line 1: hello: command not found > script: line 2: listdir: command not found > > What can I do to make my changes work in the script? 'script' is being run in a subshell, and you cannot export aliases to a subshell (but there are things you can do to get an rc file to run for a subshell; read 'man bash'). For the function, try 'export'ing it. None of this has anything to do with Cygwin. -- Matthew Not to be used as a flotation device. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/