At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:15:07 +1000, Andy Eager wrote: > Is there any way of setting an environment variable in the shell script > so that it modifies the environment of the *parent* process?
nope. > I fear not - but is there any way of returning something from a shell > other than through an exit status? stdout (or some other file descriptor), some file somewhere. all the other types of IPC too, but they're a bit hard from a shell script (without a helper (non-shell) command). -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
