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Old 11-30-2006
How to pass CSH variables up to the parent?

Hi ..

I have a dynamic script called from a programming language called Powerhouse (4GL).

The module, called QUIZ, allows the user to call shell commands from within it...
i.e.

!rm -f mipss156t2cmd1.bat mipss156t2tmp1.txt
!printf '#!/bin/csh\n' > mipss156t2cmd1.bat
!printf 'setenv ACCOUNTS "' >> mipss156t2cmd1.bat
!cat mipss156t2b.ps >> mipss156t2cmd1.bat
!printf '"\n' >> mipss156t2cmd1.bat
!chmod 770 mipss156t2cmd1.bat
!printf 'export ACCOUNTS\n' >> mipss156t2cmd1.bat
;run the BAT file to create the environment variable
!source ./mipss156t2cmd1.bat
!rm -f mipss156t2cmd1.bat mipss156t2tmp1.txt

What I am trying to do here is create a C shell (doesn't have to be C shell) script to create an environment variable called $ACCOUNTS. I then want this value to be available to the QUIZ module (the parent).

The above, even with the !source line, does not work and when I manually echo the $ACCOUNTS variable, it's actually empty! It should not be empty as the mipss156t2b.ps file (a text file) has the value I want to place into ACCOUNTS variable. But, for some reason the variable is "lost" when the above script returns back to the parent (ie. QUIZ program).

I read somewhere that it's not possible to create child variables and have them available to the parent shell. Is this true?

Thank you in advance
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NAME
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. "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup" DESCRIPTION
This is not a command the end user would want to run. Ever. This documentation is meant for people who are studying the Porcelain-ish scripts and/or are writing new ones. The git sh-setup scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using .) by other shell scripts to set up some variables pointing at the normal git directories and a few helper shell functions. Before sourcing it, your script should set up a few variables; USAGE (and LONG_USAGE, if any) is used to define message given by usage() shell function. SUBDIRECTORY_OK can be set if the script can run from a subdirectory of the working tree (some commands do not). The scriptlet sets GIT_DIR and GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY shell variables, but does not export them to the environment. FUNCTIONS
die exit after emitting the supplied error message to the standard error stream. usage die with the usage message. set_reflog_action set the message that will be recorded to describe the end-user action in the reflog, when the script updates a ref. git_editor runs an editor of user's choice (GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, VISUAL or EDITOR) on a given file, but error out if no editor is specified and the terminal is dumb. is_bare_repository outputs true or false to the standard output stream to indicate if the repository is a bare repository (i.e. without an associated working tree). cd_to_toplevel runs chdir to the toplevel of the working tree. require_work_tree checks if the repository is a bare repository, and dies if so. Used by scripts that require working tree (e.g. checkout). get_author_ident_from_commit outputs code for use with eval to set the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE variables for a given commit. AUTHOR
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