Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 02:24:44 +0900 From: Seiji Yoneda To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Subject: bash script does't work. Message-Id: <20031103014206.4964.S-YONEDA@spn1.speednet.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hA2HPA6g002234 Hi, I'm using bash 2.05a.0(2) on win2k pro and I'm running into problems that the bash script doesn't work as I expected. My bash script is as follows, <---------------- from here the script (ora8i.sh) start #!/usr/bin/bash ORA_HOME='/c/oracle/ora817' export ORA_HOME PATH=${ORA_HOME}/bin:${PATH} export PATH printenv PATH <---------------- here the script end When execute these commands step by step, PATH environment variable changes. But execute above bash script, PATH environment variable doesn't change. What's wrong ? If someone has some idea about this problem, please help me! $ printenv ORA_HOME <---------------- Before execution of script <----------- Before execution of script, ORA_HOME has nothing. $ printenv PATH /usr/local/pgsql/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/j2sdk1 .4.2_02/bin:/c/WINNT/system32:/c/WINNT:/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem $ ora8i.sh <---------------- Execute this script /c/oracle/ora817/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/usr/local/bin:/u sr/bin:/bin:/c/j2sdk1.4.2_02/bin:/c/WINNT/system32:/c/WINNT:/c/WINNT/System32/Wb em $ printenv ORA_HOME <---------------- After execution of script <----------- After execution, ORA_HOME has nothing !! $ printenv PATH <---------------- After execution, PATH does't change!! /usr/local/pgsql/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/j2sdk1 .4.2_02/bin:/c/WINNT/system32:/c/WINNT:/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem ------------------------------------ Seiji Yoneda ------------------------------------ -- 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/