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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scope of variables between scripts Post 302440338 by Scott on Tuesday 27th of July 2010 02:21:51 AM
Old 07-27-2010
Hi.

export the variables when you declare them in file1.sh:

Code:
NOW=$(date +"%b-%d-%y")
LOGFILE="./log-$NOW.log"
export NOW LOGFILE

and they will be available to you in file2.sh.
 

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GNUNET-DHT-GET(1)					      General Commands Manual						 GNUNET-DHT-GET(1)

NAME
gnunet-dht-get - issue a GET request to the GNUnet DHT, prints results. SYNOPSIS
gnunet-dht-get [options] DESCRIPTION
gnunet-dht-get issue a GET request to the GNUnet DHT and prints results. OPTIONS
-c FILENAME, --config=FILENAME Use the configuration file FILENAME. -h, --help Print short help on options. -k KEY, --key=KEY The query key. -L LOGLEVEL, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL Use LOGLEVEL for logging. Valid values are DEBUG, INFO, WARNING and ERROR. -l LOGFILE, --logfile=LOGFILE Configure logging to write logs to LOGFILE. -r LEVEL, --replication=LEVEL How many parallel requests (replicas) to create. -T TIMEOUT, --timeout=TIMEOUT How long to execute this query before giving up? -t TYPE, --type=TYPE The type of data to look for. -V, --verbose Be verbose (print progress information). -v, --version Print GNUnet version number. BUGS
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