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Old 03-08-2007
ahmedwaseem2000 ahmedwaseem2000 is offline
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. is used run the script in the same process. export works when you use the . before the script. here is an example:

Code:
$$ cat try
. ./test
echo $TEST
$$ cat test
export TEST=1
$$ ./try
1
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