On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 19:27 +0200, HIToC wrote: > Hello Henry, > > I have used "sh": sh script > But using ./script has the same problem: DATEMSK is not exported. > > Thank you for the emails > HIToC > If you execute a script via sh script.sh or ./script.sh it is executed in a sub shell. So every exported variable is only set in all sub-sub shells. Try this script to see what I mean #!/bin/sh export V=Test echo $V Now execute it in a sub shell: sh script.sh echo $V and execute it in the current shell (via sourcing it) . ./script.sh echo $V or source script.sh echo $V Best regards, Henry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
