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Old 08-09-2006
chaging a environment varible using sheel script

hi

How can one change an environment varaible inside a shell script


say my bash shell has a env variable export FOO="Day"

no i want to write a script inside which the FOO variable is modified to say
export FOO=NIGHT
after this script finishes te bash shell should show me NIGHT when i do
echo $FOO

can anyone help me with this
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Old 08-09-2006
Execute your script with the dot operator.
In that mode, the script run in the parent's environment and you can modify the env variables.
Code:
. my_script

Jean-Pierre.
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