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Bash & Ksh

I am using a Linux machine and it's default shell is BASH . I have korn shell script and inside it's setting environment variables. But after execuitng the script those env values are not holding the values . If I run the script outside of that ksh script with source a.sh , it's able to hold to values .

what I am trying to do is ...inside the ksh

I tried to like this ..

source a.sh

and if I run it in debug mode , it's still showing it's executing it as
. a.sh ( default korn shell behaviour) .


any ideas how to do this ?

Thanks
 
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