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Old 04-30-2007
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Originally Posted by rsendhilmani
Hi All,

I have a shell script called sample1.sh where I have 2 variables. Now I have another shell script called sample2.sh. I want the variables in sample1.sh to be available to sample2.sh.

For example. In sample1.sh I am finding the sum of 2 numbers namely a and b. Now I want to access these variables in sample2.sh. Is this possible? How can I do this?

Thanks in advance.
sample2.sh
Code:
. sample1.sh
.....
If you have only variables in sample1.sh, then you can use above code, else keep all the variables in one file and replace sample1.sh by that file name in above code.