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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Changing the environment in sh
Keywords: sh export shell
Message-ID: <398@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 3 Sep 88 21:45:02 GMT
References: <59@csnz.nz>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <59@csnz.nz> paul@csnz.UUCP (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
>I've Read The FM's, but I must be a bit dim - how do I change an
>environment variable, e.g. PATH, using a /bin/sh script, and have
>those changes effective in my login shell?

Instead of having the shell execute the script, as in

$ sh script
(or)
$ script          # assuming script is chmod +x

have the shell evaluate, or source the script:

$ . script        # `dot script'

Dave Hammond
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