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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:57:18 -0700
From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com>
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Subject: Re: help with exporting variables
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Malcolm Garland wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm Malcolm.  I've created a series of bourne shell scripts which set a series of environment > variables.  Using bash, we are attempting to export/use these scripts on NT.  When we run a > single line: "bash 'script-name', the variables are set locally, but the NT "global" environment > variables are not modified.  When execute the exact scripts, AFTER entering the bash environment > (i.e., level with the bash prompt versus the DOS prompt) the environment variables are set > globally.  How can we alter the NT global environment variables using a single line command > directive such as,
> $ bash "script-name" Options?

Maybe?

  bash -c "source script-name"

You may want to pose this question to one of the bash related news
groups, too.

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Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com

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