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Old 07-03-2003
Question Asking on taking in and out paramter
Hi , as i'm doing a .sh script that uses $datafile variable to spool my value into another .sh script. How do i spool out my maybe another value from my second script file back to my first .sh script???
What does this exit $? mean?

Thanks a lot!
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Old 07-03-2003
If you are running the second script from the first (2nd is a child process of the 1st) then you could send it to a temporary file.

If this were a programming language, you could set a global variable.

For an explaination of exit, see this thread
 
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