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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Thunder Scientific Corporation wrote: > Wow! You folks helped me get sufficiently oriented to get a hold of the > material I needed to find and master. Thanks a lot, everyone. > > So here is my other question: > Why can't I change my PATH in a shell script? > > Suppose I wish to add the traditional /foo/bar to my search path. I can > type in "export PATH=$PATH:/foo/bar", and that works. I.e., if I type "echo > $PATH" I get back my original path concatenated with ":/foo/bar". Yet if I > try putting this into a shell script I get no error messages but "echo > $PATH" returns the unmodified original search path. None of the variants > I've tried seems to work. (I'm running a new Red Hat Linux 6.1 > installation.) > > Why? > > Help would again be appreciated. If your are using sh, bash or ksh use . file-name If you are using csh, tcsh, zcsh use source file-name > > Richard Bowser > Engineer > Thunder Scientific Corporation > > email: richardb@thunderscientific.com > > > > ------ > Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ > Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > Thanks, Aleksey ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
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