On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:49:39 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>Whose environment variables? The process that the REXX code is running >>in or the process that invoked it? Does the default Unix shell in z/OS >>support ".cmd" for running "cmd" in the same process as the shell? >> > >Yes. I knew it did, but had a little trouble rembering where to find >it in black and white. > >From the z/OS Unix command reference Appendix A (shell command summary): > >A.7 Computing and Managing Logic > > >+------------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------¦ >¦ dot or . ¦ POSIX.2 ¦ XPG4.2 ¦ Run a shell file in the current ¦ >¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ environment ¦ >+------------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------¦ > It also documented in the commands reference under DOT. DOT . (dot) -- Run a shell file in the current environment . (dot) runs a shell script in the current environment and then returns. Normally, the shell runs a command file in a child shell so that changes to the environment by such commands as cd, set, and trap are local to the command file. The . (dot) command circumvents this feature. -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
