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From: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan "yes that is my real name" Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Set parent env with csh script
Summary: dont invoke another shell, source it...
Message-ID: <544@island.uu.net>
Date: 9 Jan 89 18:49:31 GMT
References: <174@v7fs1.UUCP>
Reply-To: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan "yes that is my real name" Smith)
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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In article <174@v7fs1.UUCP> mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>I would like to write a shell script (csh preferred) that will
>set a few environment variables to various things.  Of course,
>just doing   setenv foo bar  in the script only works for that
>subshell and its children, not for the calling shell.

	Source the script instead of running it.  That way, any environment
variables (and csh variables) that the script changes will be seen
in the shell you "sourced" from.

				dan
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