Laurent Daudelin writes:
> Sorry for the off-topic message. I could really use some help! I've been
> banging my head over a stupid problem I'm experiencing on OS X and can't
> waste anymore time. If I can't resolve this quickly, I will have to jump on
> by Windoze box.
>
> I've been working on Nexstep/Openstep since 1992, so I know a bit of Unix.
> Right now, I'm trying to run a shell script from the terminal to set a few
> environment variables. Problem is, no matter what I do, the variables are
> undefined after I ran the script. I have a text file named 'setEnv.tcsh'
> like this:
>
> #!/bin/tcsh -f
> setenv FOO "bar"
> echo -n 'Foo is "'
> echo -n $FOO
> echo '".'
>
> I run it from the terminal like ./setEnv.tcsh. It runs and displays the
> value of FOO as 'Foo is "bar"', but whenever the script completes and I
> check the value of ${FOO}, I get undefined variable.
>
> What's going on?
>
> Thanks for pointing my obvious stupid mistake...
Executing a script means that it runs in its own shell - any
changes to variables etc will not be reflected in the parent shell.
What you should do instead is to "include" the file; you do
this by
source setEnv.tcsh
HTH.
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